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N.E. Stuart & Co. 


* Formerly WIEST Grain Company. 














We can still give you a good price on flour. 
Get our prices before you buy your stock. 





We still have some APPLES at $2 00 per 
"Box. Fine ones, too. 


A few good Sheep Lined Coats at $6 50 





We have just received the best 
Stock of Shoes that ever struck the 
town. The prices arelow. Call 
in and see what they look like. 


a A good stock of Men’s Underclothes and over- 


shoes. We carry Shoes, Felts and over- 
shoes for Wémen and Children. 





N. E. Stuart & Co. 














Coal & Wood Wood & Coal 





If your coal pile is getting low, let 
us replenish it for you. Shipments of 
both Coal and Wood are hard to get 
this winter owing to the car shortage 
which has not righted itself yet. 

Don’t run short during this Zero 
weather. You need the heat, we 
need the business. 





We keep in stock practically everything for Builders, 


FINLAY & COMPANY 
The Lumber People. 











~ | Ship Your Grain 
Through Us 


ASA! 
Our facilities for handling are 
O. K. We buy on track and 
that means the highest price. 
' More money in your pockets. 


See me before you sell or buy. 
BSA 


C. CARLSON, Agent. 





-| McKay. 


ALDERSON. ALBERTA, THURSDAY; JANUARY 27th, 


st “OF Local and ‘Personal Interest ‘:-: 





COMPETITION SOCIAL 


The thirty or forty people who 


braved the cold weather of last 
Friday and turned out for the Com- 
petition ‘Social in the Methodist 
Church, were repaid by a most ‘en- 
joyableevening. The opening num- 
ber was an instrumental selection by 
Miss Edna Gish on the Piano, and 
Messrs. T. Taylor and Robert Gish 
on violins. It was well rendered. 


Competitions of many kinds filled 
out the evening. But reference can 
be made here to the two most im- 
portant, and amusing. The nail 
driving contest in which nine ladies 
participated, and a_bat trimming 
contest for the gentler sex, in which 
eight men competed. The ladie+ 
who wielded the hammers were Mes 
dames Stevens, Hanson, Shields, 
Renders, C. F. Starr, V. E. Starr, 
and Misses Gish, Starr and Madeline 
Bean. Miss Edna Gish was de- 
clared the winner on a record of 
eight nails in 45 seconds. Mrs. 
Neil Renders wasa very close second 
The first prize in this contest won 
by Miss Gish was a set of juvenile 
carpenter’s tools. Miss Madeline 
Bean who made the remarkable 
record of half a nail in 45 seconds 
was awarded the Consolation Prize 
a bottle of Salve, for bruised fingeig 
The Judges who decided this event 
were Messrs. Renders, McDiamid 
and McKay. 


Then followed the hat trimming 
contest in which the entrants for 
honors, were Messrs. Enos Leitch, 
Neil Renders, Burton McDiarmid, 
Frank McDiarmid, Lester H 
Jack Gish,’ overt Gish and 
This sure was some hum- 
orous event. . Two of the entrants 
Messrs. McDiarmid and McKay 
haven’t got their needles threaded 
yet But that didn’t stop them from 
making terrible creations. 


When the ribbons and feathers 
had all been placed or disposed of 
the lady judges, Mesdames Stevens, 
V. E. Starr and, Renders declared 
that Enos Leitch ha@ -made the 
finest model and was awarded first 
prize in the event, a copy of a fash- 
ton magazine. They gave Frank 
McDiarmid a prize for worst attempt 
and the prize was a package of 
Bachelor Buttons. Needless to say 
all voted the evening one of solid 
enjoyment. 





OBITUARY 


This Thursday morning the News 
Jearns of the death of William A. 
Butler at his home in the Peerless 


district on Wednesday. Mr. Butler 
suffered a Paralytic Stroke and for 


many hours preceeding death was 
unconscious. Mr Butler was born 
at Dublin, Ireland 60 years ago. 
He came to this district about three 
years ago. He is survived by his 
widow, two sons, J. A and Arthur 
and one daughter Kathleen, all at 
home. 

J A Butler and Charles Kincaid 
drove to town this morning the 385 
miles to secure a casket. The body 
vill be taken to Medicine Hat for 
interment on Friday’s train, 


A J Drummond is in charge of 
the funeral. ° 


NOTICE 
There will be a meeting of the 
Alderson U F A at two oclock on 
Saturday Jan 29th in F E McDiar- 
mid’s office. This is a very import- 


ant Meeting aud all members are} 


urged to be present. 


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AW; ~ seine 
i. "| Hot drinks at the Palace all the time 





| Harry W. Johnson assisted in an 

aaction sale of horses at Jenner. 
Giving credit where credit is due, 
| Harry is fast developing into an 
| A 1 auctioneer. 





Horses 








WE WILL HAVE 


At SUFFIELD on FRIDAY 
JANUARY 2st. 
UNTIL SOLD, 


for Sale 
| 


Nine head of Young Broke Mares, 


From 1300 Ibs. 


to 1450 lbs. and 


Ten head of Heavy Geldings. 





Come early before they are 
all picked over. 


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First lot all sold 
This is an 





out. 
entirely new bunch. 





Southern 


Land 


Alberta 
Company 








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BUY MADE IN CANADA 


F. J. Brown. 


JANUARY CLEARANCE 


5 Sheep lified Coats formerly $7-50 to $9 00 

Sale Price $5 00 

1 Sheep lined Corduroy Vest formerly $3 75 
Sale price 82 50 

2 doz. Men’s Winter Caps formerly 75c to $1 50 
Sale price 50¢ 

5 Mackinaws all wool, colors Red, Green and 

Grey stripes formerly $8 50 Sale $6 50 

2 only Kedmond’s No 1 Grey Stripe formerly $10 


° Sale 87 50 


Your:choice of 8 doz. Men’s ‘lies were 60 to 75c 
Sale 25c. 
Fifteen per cent discount on all Men’s Suits 
5 only Ladies Winter Coats at cost price $9 to $16 
Twenty per cent discount on all Ladies Skirts in 
Blue) Brown and Grey Serge 
Children’s Grey Astrachan Gauntlets were 90c. 
Sale 65c. 
Ladies Flannel waists in Red, Grey, Blue and 
Tan stripes were g2 25 Sale $1 50 
Children’s Bear Skin Hoods were 85e: Sale 50c. 
Children’s Toquesin all colors were 40c. Sale 25c. 
Children’s Fleece lined Shirts and Drawers were 
35e. 40c. and 50c. Sule price 25¢e. 
Ten per cent discount on all Shoes, Rubbers, 
Felts, Overshoes, Sweaters, Lined Gloves and 
Mitts, Shirts, and special discounts on all winter 
Goods, Ladies Gents and Children of every 
description. See us betore buying elsewhere. 
Ogilvie's Flour in five sack lots, Glenora $2 85 





BUY MADE IN CANADA GOODS 


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HORSES ¢ SALE 





MONDAY, JAN. 31st. 


I will offer about 


12 HEAD of YOUNG MARES and GELDINGS 


ALL BROKE TO HARNESS 


F.E. McDIARMID 














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Mr Householder 








’ Do you know that a fuil set of storm sash on 
They 
reduce your coal bill and give you added 


your house is a paying investment. 


comfort through the winter. We carry all 


the standard sizes in sto:m sash, also storm 
doors, and would like to quote you prices on 
your requirements. 


a a ate ct bee ann ne 
When it comes to Lumber, 


we have the Goods. 
C. F. Starr Lumber Co. 


V. E. Starr, Manager Phone 13 
Call and See us. We are here to Serve you. 











ALDERSON NEWS } 





By Miss L. G. Moberly 
Copyright by Miss L: G. 
Moberley 





,Cortinuea) 

“The whole situation is most puzzl- 
ing,” Carr answered kindly, “but as 
things are at present, Drake is cb- 
viously right. Meanwhile, with ro 
gard to the matter of work. The only 
post I could ofer you at the moment, 
is the very significant one of a junor 
clerkship. Nothing else is vacant, and 
1 am bound to take into consideration 
the fact that neither you yourseil, 
nor I, know precisely what are your 
capabilities. in the post I mention 
you would by degrees get an insight 
into the workings of a pusiness like 
ours, and if opportunity offered, and 
if 1 found you had the necessary cup- 
acity, I might later be able to give you 
better work. At present this is ail 1 
have to offer you.” 

“I most gratefully accept your cf- 
fer,” Lowndes said eagerly, “when I 
said | would do any work, I meant 
what I said to the letter. The harder 
the work, and the more constant the 
application necessary, the better I 
shall be pleased. Until my memory 
comes back, I shall be giad to be at 
work morning, noon and night.” 


“I understar.,” a sympathetic 
glance shot out of tho shrewd grey 
eyes, “and another thing, Mr. 


Lowndes, AS you may like to hear of 
lodgings in an inexpensive quarter of 
the town, I should like to recommend 
you some rooms kept by the widuw 
of one of our own seamen. She is a 
worthy soul, and her rooms have a 
certain attraction, though the yare i1 
a poor neighborhood, They are clean 
and the house is old and quaint, look- 
ing over the river. I believe you 
would like Mrs. Turner’s apartments, 
as she insists on calling them.” 

“The idea of looking over the river 
pleases me very much—I don’t know 
whether at some time in my life I 
have had to do with those who go 
down to the sea in ships, but. ships 
and sea and rivers seem to hold a 
special fascination for me,” 

“Then you will certainly like River 
View,” James Carr. answered, “better 
go down there, make arrangements 
with her, and settle it today, and 
come up to the office to begin work 
tomorrow.” Mutually pleased’ with 
one another the two men parted com- 
pany, and Lowndes forthwith made 
his way to the address given him 
by his employer. It was _ reached 
through a bewildering maze of smell 
streets, but the aspect of the place 
when at last he reached it at once 
commeénded itself to him. Once more 
a time in some bygone day River 
View must have been a country cct- 
tage set by tho river side amongst 
te;ds and trees, and although its 
background now no longer consisted 
of peaceful meadow solitudes, but of 
serried ‘rows of grey streets, there 
was still a touch of remoteness ard 
charm about the little white house 
and its small patch of garden, 

Mrs. Turner, a plump middle aged 
lady, with rosy cheeks and beady 
black eyes gave John a cordial wel- 
come, and at once led him upstairs’ to 
what she called her first floor front, .. 
bed sitting room simple enough furn- 
ished. but very neat and clean. Its 
low window projected over the river, 
and as the young man stood there 
looking out across the stream, the lap 
of the water against the banks came 
to him with a strange sense of fam- 
iliarity. In some place before, he had 


listened to that same soothing lap lap” 


of water below him, but where he had 
heard the sound he could not recall. 
His brows drew together in a puzzled 
frown as he tried to tack that fleet- 
ing memory on to anything more ce- 
finite, but his effort to remember was 
useless, and he brought his wanderi: 
thoughts back to listen to Mrs. Turn- 
er’s remarks, 

“You'd be out to lunch most days 
of course,” she was saying, “seeing 
you'll be working at the office. Break- 
fast I could see t) for you and a bit o’ 
something in the evening, and you 
coming with a recommendation from 
Mr. Carr, I shall do my best to make 
you comfortable.” 

She did not add, what she might 
truthfully have added, that John’s 
own blue eyes and courteous manner 
had already won him her golden opin- 
ion, and she made no demur whatever 
when_he finally asked whether he 
could take up his abode~at Rivor 
View that same day. ‘ 

“I can fetch my baggage, such as it 
is, I havon’t very much,” he said, 
thinking whimsically, though he fore- 
bore to disclose it to his landlady, 
how destitute he was of possessions 
of every sort and any kind, depen- 
dent for the smallest necessaries of 
life upon the kindness of Vanner and 
« d Doctor Drake, “I shall be glad t 
get settled in at once, and I think 1 
shall soon feel at home here,” 

When he had lived for a few weeks 
at Mrs. Turner’s white cottage, he 
was able to endorse his own sen- 
tence, for he found something singu- 
larly homelike in the little old fash- 
joned house by the river. In the 
onrush of the jerry builder that house 
had been forgotten and left standing, 
and from the low window of his room, 
Lowndes could watch all the multifar- 
ioug life of the river, just as his pre- 
decessors in that room had watchea 
it through two centuries and more. 
He liked the quaint old world ceiling, 
with its uneven floor, its low ceiling, 
the want of perspective about the 
window itself. He even liked the 


weird collection of prints and eleo- 
graphs with wkich Mrs, Turner had 
decorated its walls; and the maater- 
pieces of worsted work which adorn- 








NE of largest and matt comto 
nfs renet 


The Queen’s Hotel 


TORQNTO 
American Plan—$3.00 and up; $4.00 with bath 
wh, 


tantly furnished througheat’ culaine and sere 
ui r ; 
thin easy seach 0} railway station, Hotel coaches 


ved table and chairs. Those master- 
|pieces had been constructed by Mar- 
tha Eliza, Mrs, Turner's small daugh- 
ter, whose name, so it was explained 
to Lowndes, was a combination of the 
names of two boats once owned py 
her father; whose personality pre- 
sented an absurd replica of that of her 
mother. ‘The little rosy cheeked black 
eyed maiden wag shyly proud of be- 
ing allowed occasionally and as 

great favor, to wait upon the first 
floor front, and ghe and John had 
wonderful talks together, founded 
primarily’ upon the marvels of the 
water highway that flowed past her 
home—and next upon a queer jumble 
of fairy lore which had filtered from 
somewhere into her brain. John 
} found that in talking to the child for- 
gotten fairy, tales came back to his 
lown mind; hursery rhymes, nursery 
stories tripped off his tongue, he hard- 
|ly knew how, but the fact of his re- 
|membering them gave him acute plea- 
sure. It almost seemed to him the 
foreshadowing of a complete restora- 
tron of memory 3ecause of its pres- 
ent lapse, he shrank from intercourse 
with his fellow clerks, or indeed from 


his fellow beings, excepting when, 
now and then, he was seized by a 
feverish longing to meet somoone 


who might be able to reveal his iden- 
tity to him. A longing of this de- 
scription would drive him into the 
West End, there to pace the most 
frequented streets, in the forlorn hope 
that by so doing, he might chance to 
meet a man or woman who had form- 
erly ben a friend or evn an acquain- 
tance. But these excursions to the 
other end of London were few and far 
between, und when each one ended in 
disappointment, and he met nobody 
who greeted him, nobody who could 
lift the veil from nis past, he went 
less and less to the more well to do 
quarters of the town, but contented 
himself with the quiet round of: his 
daily existence. Working hours over 
he spent a great deal of his time in 
sitting by his bow window or in the 
strip of garden against whose bank 
the water lapped and gurgled with 
peaceful monotony. The walk from 
the office to his room was exercise 
enough in itself, but if a restless fit 
assailed him, would walk the 
streets behind his dwelling, exploring 
that grey and poverty stricken neigh- 
borhood, and learning much of the 
lives of its inhabitants—of their pat- 
ience, their unselfishness, their gen- 
erosity. Now and again. he amuseu 
himself by talking to Mrs. Turner, 
whose long winded stories of her de- 
ceased sailor husband and his many 
virtues gave him unfeigned delight. 

And sometimes he availed himsclf 
of Mr. Carr’s cordial invitation, and 
went to the flat where hisemployer led 
a comfortable bachelor existence, car- 
ed for by two old and faithful ser- 
vants, 

But John did uot often accept those 
invitations Much as he liked and re- 
spected James Carr himself, he 
shrank from meeting the shipowners 
friends; shrank almost morbidly from 
being introduced by a name that was 
not his own; from | ing asked pos- 
sible questions by strangers; from 
getting te know people, as he puts it, 
on false pretences. And no amount 
of arguing with himself, or of argu- 
ment on the part of James Carr could 
shake this distaste and shrinking, 
which seemed to increase rather than 
diminish as the weeks slipped by. 








CHAPTER XV, 
Daphne’s Decision 

For several minutes ufter she had 
reached her owu room Daphne could 
only sit in the armchair and look out 
of the window, her very power of 
thought temporarily suspended. SLe 
was tired, so tired, and her brain was 
too paralyzed with misery to be able 
at first to think clearly, but presently 
as some of her bodily fatigue passed 
away, her thoughts grew ciear again, 
and a tumult of pain and revolt swell- 
ed up within her. 

Hugh and Marjory—the two names 
once more beat backwards and for- 
wards in her brain—she seeemd in- 
capable of seeing anything but their 
two faces; the scene she had just 
‘witnessed in the lane, reconstructed 
itself with torturing persistence be- 
fore her mental vision; Hugh’s alight 
with a passionate adoration guch as 
she never befor. seen it wear—Mar- 
jory’s, beautiful, beguiling, wistful. In 
spite of all the bitterness that stirred 
within her, her native sense of jus- 
tice made her insist, even though 1 
was only to herself, that there were 
Many excuses to be made for her lov- 


er. Marjory was extraordinarily 
lovely and bewitching; there was a 
fascination about her of which 


Waphne wag fully conscious, and if it 
were apparent to her, a fellow wo- 
man, how much more likely it would 
be to influence and effect a man, 

(To be Continued) 





The Long Wars 
It is pointed out that if the war 
lasts until the autumn of 1916 it will 
have been longer than any great war 
in Burope since the fall of Napoleon. 


Each of the two Balkan wars of 
1912-13 was a matter of weeks. So 
were the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 
1885 asd the Turco-Bulgarian War of 
1897. The Crimean War lasted a 
little more than a year, while the 


Franco-Prussian war was practially 
decided in a month, although Paris 
was holding out three months after- 
wards. The Russo-Japanese War 
lasted about twelve months, as did 
the Turco-Italian war of 1911-12. The 
Boer war ran for two and a half 
years, but that cannot be called a 
European war, The American Civil 
war lasted for four years. 









Hotels in the Dominion of Canada, strictly 
on site, with bath; long 


Hotel coaches 
McGAW & WINNETT 





Fighting in the. 
Style of Old 


French Despatch Boat Sailors Leap 
to Deck of Turkish Schooner’ 


Hark back to the day of the old sea 
rovers, when ship ran alongside ship, 
nmiade fast with grappling irons, and 
then the crew, armed to the teeth, 
swarmed over the enemy’s side ard 
rasped out the stern command, “Sur- 
renaer or die!” Such exploits belong 
to the long ago? ‘True; but one of 
the most settied habits of history is 
to repeat herself, and in an amazing 
tashion, and this is precisely what 
happened quite recently, 

Yes, a ship taken by a boarding 
crew. One looks for surprises in 
these days of ultra modern sea war- 
fare, but to think that one ship should 
capture another thus after the fashion 
of Surcouf, l’Hermite and the priva- 
teers of old is not a supposition that 
normally belongs to November, 1915. 
One might sooner believe that the 
homeric charges of Murat’s hussars 
and Ney’s cuirassiers would live 
again than that in these days, when 
squadrons pound each other at a dis- 
tance of twelve miles or more, sail- 
ors would leap from one vessel to an- 
other and engage in hand to hand 
combat. 


Just one thing saddened Lieut. La- 
combe and his ten men. When they 
leaped aboard the Turkish schooner 
they had no boarding cutlasses; ali 
that remained had been locked up long 
ago in the glass cases of naval 
museums, and here was the chance to 
use them, Perhaps Surcout laughed 
from the shades and said, “They for- 
got something.” Nevertheless, the 
moderns did as weil. ag they could 
with revolvers and whatever blades 
they found. 

Perhaps the combat lacked some of 
the picturesqueness of a great sea 
fight of old, when the belligerents 
came so close together that their rig- 
ging became intertwined and the gun- 
ners could not man their pieces— 
when it was strategy to ram the ene- 
my ship, while the boarding parties 
stood ready for instant action; but 
the encounter here chronicled, says 
I'lllustration, wes lacking in nothing 
that signifies courage or dash or ad- 
riot manoeyvre. The descendants of 
Lieut. Lacombe and his boarding par- 
ty of ten will recount their exploits 
just as do heirg to the memories of 
older sea glories, 

It came to pass that a little de- 
Spatch boat of the French Mediter- 
ranean patrol captured a large Turk- 
ish schooner, on which were forty- 








three soldiers, of whom elevcn were 
officers, commanded by Ahmed Fehmi 
Bey, a chief, who was taking war sup- 
plies to the Senussi of Tripoli ana 
presents for their leaders. On the 
morning of that day, under a-heavy 
sky, the, Nord Caper, proud in its new 


spatch boat, was cruising off Crete. 
Only a few weeks before it had been 
a common trawler of Boulogne—squat, 
honest, but to all appearance hope- 
lessly bourgeois. Fortune had been 
kind and the Nord Caper was happy, 
eager to do something to distinguish 
herself and her commander. for ships, 
as every mariner knows, are quite s 
capable of sentiment as any human 
being. 

Ambition was fated to be gratified. 
A sail was sighted in the offing and 
on closer view it was seen to belo.g 
to a large schooner, whose long, 
sweeping line of lateen rig and broad 
expanse of canvas plainly belonged 
to the Mediterranean and particularly 
to its eastern waters. Such rigging is 
known elsewhere, but in less degree. 
The schooner, whose Turkish and 
therefore hostile nationality was sus- 
pected, manifested no inclination to 
exchange salutes with the French 
patrol boat. Instead it kept on its 
way as speedil; and as intently as 
possible, ignoring all courtesies of the 
sea, 

As commander of a despatch bo’ 
in the patrol service, Lieut. Lacombe 
had a duty to perform—to hail the 
runaway schooner, ask her captain 
why, and demand that he show his 
papers. The French lieutenant sig- 
nalled, but the” other commandcr 
showed not the slightest dsposition to 
heave to, hence Lieut, Lacombe re- 
solved upon the tactics of long ago— 
to board the other ship, which plainly 
was an enemy. He had only ten men 
available for the attack, every one 01 
the others on board being needed eith- 
er in manning the boat itself or its 
machinery, 

To sweep alongside a moving vessel 
ig an undertaking always accompani- 
ed by more or less risk, but the 
French commander accompanied this 
with skill and came so.close that the 
main boom of the enemy scraped the 
hull of the Norc Caper. The French 
crew hogked into the shrouds of the 
Turkish vessel. made as fast as they 
could with grappling irons and then 
before the astonished Turks realized 
what was happening, Lieut. Lacombe 
and his ten men leaped Over the sice 
to the enemy's deck—eleven wild 
men, firing revolvers, slashing with 
knives, hurling themselves upon four 
times their number and against the 
odds of petter arms. The Turks, who 
tried to resist were ghot or knocked 
down; the Frenchmen seized _ the 
helm, hauled down the sail and with- 
in a few minutes were masters of the 
ship, over which they hoisted the en- 
sign of France. 

Then through the maze of tangled 
tackle, torn sails and broken spars 
on the reddened deck he Turkish com- 
mander hurried over the bodies of 
his fallen men to surrender to Lieut. 
Lacombe. 

Later in the day the despatch boat 
paraded before the great armored 
ships of the Freggh squadron and her 
commander and men were loudly ac- 
claimed, Both men and boat have been 
praised in that official recital of brave 
deeds, “The Order of the Day.” 

“Pngaged to four girls at once?” ex- 
claimed the horrified uncle. “How do 
you explain such shameless con- 
duct?” 

“I don't know,” said the graceless 
nephew. “I guess Cupid must have 
shot me with a machine gun.” 











»~nilage’ 
promotion to the rank of auxiliary ae- | 








(Banking Privileges 


For the Farmers 





Practical Farmer Will Have Charge 
of Loan Business of Minnesota 

‘ Bank 

A somewhat new departure in bank- 
ing has been made by the First Na- 
tional Bank of Stillwater, Minnesota. 
A department for placing farmers 
on the same basis as the business 
man in the city as regards the rate: 
of interest and borrowing conye.i 
ences on both long and short tern 
loans, and the appointment of an ot 
ficial—a trained and experienced ma. 
to help farmers customers in the so 
lution of problems which they meet 
on the farm—is the latest’ innova- 
tion. 

Banks have been often known to 
employ men to promote more profit- 
able agriculture, but the one in ques- 
tion seeks to do more; its aims are 
for increased service on the part of 
the bank, as well as, or perhaps in- 
stead of, the instruction which banks 
so often seek to give; and that is ex- 
actly what is needed. Instruction as 
to how to farm, while farm loans are 
at close to ten per cent. is beginning 
to pall. What farmers need, and are 
entitled to, is the same service as is 
given the city merchant, and at the 
same cost. The very fact that there 
will be a practical farmer attached to 
the bank is worthy of congratulation. 
Have you ever gonc in to a banking 
institution and been compelled to deal 
with some young chap in his teens 
who possibly wouldn’t know a hay 
stack from a threshing machine? Per- 
haps you have. 

In their published announcement 
the Stillwater bank says that its of- 
fisers realize that they must have in 
charge of the now department a man 
who understands farm business in all 
its details. In the practical working 
out of the loan features the managur 
will visit farmers applying for loans, 
look over their property and discuss 
with them, at their suggestion, any 
problem pertaining to farm manage- 
ment, the use of more capital for its 
successful operation, ®r any other de- 
tails that the owner may care to take 
up. The Dank states that it will be 
ready to aid all active and progres- 
sive agricultural movements, and 
specifically mentions the purchase 
and sale of live stock. 

The idea is a sane one, and could 
be copied by certain other banking 
institutions with grace and impua- 
ity. 





Praise for the Silo 

The Missouri College of Agriculture 
received some interesting letters from 
farmers throughout the state, in 
which they give their opinions regara- 
ing the value of the silo. Here are 
just a few of them: i ‘4 

nad ver fed any feed as cheap as 

x I think” AS chedper Pade 
feed than grass at six dollars per 
acre.” 

“I practically wintered twenty head 
of stock on thirteen acres of silage 
and wouldn’t have had nearly enough 
if I had fed from the field.” 

“I don’t want to be without a silo. 
Mine paid for itself in two years.” 

“Cattle will go from silage to grass 
and never miss a meal or a day’s 
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Amazing Heroism at the Battle Front 
Which Won the Coveted 
Honor 

In the big advance on Loos that be- 
gan on Sept. 25 the Victoria Cross was 
won by seventeen officers and men 
of the British army. 

The wonderful stories of their 
-smazing heroism, coolness and devo- 
-ion to duty are told in the official 
/orases of the London Gazette, Some 
of them are hero reproduced: 

Major A, F, D.uglas-Hamilton, com- 
nanding 6th Queen’s Own Highland- 
ers; When commat.aing his battalion 
during operations on Hill 70 on Sept. 
26, when the battalions on his right 
and left had retired, he ,rallied his 
own battalion again and again and 
led his men forward four times, The 
last time he led all that remained, 
consisting of about 60 men, in a mos: 
gallant manner, and was killed at 
their head, 

It was mainly due to his bravery, 
untiring energy and spelndid leadcr- 
ship that the line at this point was 
enabled to check the enemy’s ad- 
vance, 

Capt. Antekell Montray Read, ist 
Northamptonshire regiment: 

During the first attack near Hul- 
luch on the morning of Sept. 25 al- 
though partially gassed, Capt. Read 
went out several times in order to 
rally parties of different units which 
were disorganized anc retiring. He 
led them back to the firing line, and 
utterly regardless of danger, moved 
freely about encouraging them under 
a withering fire. He was mortal! 
wounded whil. carrying out this gal- 
lant work. 

Corp. J. D. Pollock, 6th Queen's 
Own Cameron Highlanders: 

Near the Hohenzollern redoubt on 
Sept. 27, at about 12 noon, when the 
enemy's bombers is superior numbers 
were successfully working up the 
“Little Willie” trench toward Hohen- 
zollern redoubt, Corp, Pollock, after 
obtaining permission, got out of the 
trench alone, walked along the top 
edge with the utmost coolness an. 


the ‘.memy’s bombers to retire by 
bombing them from above. He was 
under heavy m>chine gun fire the 
whole tiue. 

Temp.-Second Lieut. A. J. T. Flem- 
ing-Sandes, 2nd East Surrey regi- 
ment; 

At Hohenzollern rédoubt on SejA. 
29 Second Lieut. Fleming-Sandes was 
sent to command a company which at 
the time was in a very critical pori- 
tion. The troops on hig right were 
retiring and his owr men, who weie 
much shaken by the continual bomb- 
ing and machine gun fire, were also 
toginning to retire, owing to the 
shortage of bombs. Taking in the sit- 
uation at a glance, he collected a few 
bombs, jumped on to the parapet in 
full view of the Germans, who were 
only 20 yards away, and threw them. 

Although very severely wounded al- 
most at once by a bomb, he struggled 
to‘ his feet and continued to advance 
and threw bombs until hs was again 
severely wounded, 

Temp. Second Lieut. F, H. Johnson, 
irc Field Company, R.E.: 

In the attack on Hill 70 on Sept. 
25, Second Lieut. Johnson was witn.. 
section of his company of the Royal 
Sngineers. Although wounded in the 
leg, he stuck to his duty throughout 
the attack and led several charges-on 
the German redoubt an at a very 
critical time, under very heavy fire, 
repeatedly rallied the men who were 
near him. By his splendid example 
and cool courage he was mainly in- 
strumental in saving the situation. 

Second Lieut. A. B. Turner. 3ra 
Princess Charlotte of Wales’ (Royal 
Parkshire) regiment: 

At Foose 8, near Vermelles, on 
Sept. 28, when the regimental bomb- 
ers could make no headway in Slag 
Aliey Second Lieut. Turner voluntecr- 
ed to lead a new bombing attack. He 
pressed down the communication 
trench practically alone, throwin; 
bombs incessantly with such dash 
and determination that he drove back 
the Germans about 150 yards without 
a check. His action enabled the re- 
serves to advance with very little 
loss, and subsequently covered the 
flank if his regiment in its retire- 
ment, thug probably averting a loss of 
some hundreds of men. This most 
gallant officer has since died. 





Saving of a Crop of Barley 

J. D. McGregor is more than a 
raiser of fat cattle—he is an experi- 
menter in new lines of agriculture. 

On his farm near Brandon, Man., 
he has several large wooden silos. 
These structures have been formerly 
filled with corn, butthis year, owing 
to the cold, wet weather, this crop 
in that section of the Dominion 
proved a failure, 

The early frosts slightly damaged 
many acres of his barley. It was 
impossible to thresh the partly 
matured grain, and to save the 
crop he put it all in the silo. It was 
“killing two birds with one stone.” 
The silos were going to be empty and 
the barley was going to spoil, but 
by a little extra care both “would-be” 
losses were turned to a profit. 

The barley, straw and all, was cut 
up as fine as possible and blown into 
the silo together with a good hali- 
inch stream of water under about 
twenty pounds pressure. A little 
more difficulty in tramping was ex- 
perienced than with corn, but the 
stuff kept well and made quite as 
good feed as ordinary corn ensilage. 
Next year Mr. McGregor is going to 
mix barley with his corn, and is also 


ene 


going to try some peas in the same. 


manner, 





An old negro was charged with 
chicken stealing, and the judge said: 

“Where's your lawyer, uncle?” 

“Ain't got none, judge.” 

“But you ought to have one,” re- 
turned the court, 
defend you,” 

“No, sah, no, sah, please don’t do 
dat,” begged the defendant. 

“Why not?” persisted the judge. “It 
won't cost you anything. Why don't 
you want a lawyer?” : 

“Well, Ah'll tell you, Jedge,” said 
the old man confidentially. “Ah wants 
|ter enj’y dem chickens mahself” 


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The Farm Home 


Things That Help to Make Up the 
Sum Total of a Real Farm .. 
Home 

There are very few words in the 
English language as dear as the words 
home—motner, home 
Not enough farmers pay as much at- 
tention to making the farm a real 
home, as they ought. Not only the 
“house” but the whole farm shoulda 
be looked upon as “home,” and plans 
should bé so laid as to bring the vari- 
ous fields constituting the homestead 
under such management as vo not 
only make them profitable in a fin- 
ancial point of view, but pleasing and 
attractive to look upon, If in cultivat- 
ed crops take such good care of them 
as to draw one’s attention as. they 
pass, and if in grass, have the surface 
smooth and lawn like after beiig 
mown. Let the fence corners be neat- 
ly mown, with no hedgerows left 
along them; plant some trees, shrub- 
bery and@fiowers about the buildings, 
and allow no broken down waggon: 
or old implements standing about. 
Keep the farm live stock in that con- 
dition that you will not feel ashamed 
to own it, but on the contrary, be a 
little proud that it belongs to you, 
when you exhibit it to your friends. 
All of these things’‘help to make up 
the sum total of a real farm home. 
The orchardyand garden also come in 
as great afds towards making the 
farm house the most desirable place 
on earth, for when we write about 
the home, it is hardly possible to 
think of any other but the farm 
house, because it is nearer to nature 
and the things that make life so 
charming in the country. Year by year 
add something to make the hore 
more dear.—E. H. Dow, in the Weekly 
Sun, 











TO CHANGE YOUR SKIN! 


How to Develop the Highest Degree 
of Vital, Nervous and Muscular 
Vigor. 


Snakes throw off their outer skin 
once a year. Human bein change 
their skin perhaps nine times in a year; 
that is, they have a new skin about once 
in six weeks. 

The value of a clean skin in main-. 
taining health is not properly under- 
stood by the majority of people. Clean- 
liness is a part of health. You can- 
not be healthy unless you are clean, 
not only externally, but also inter- 


nally 

The blood should also be assisted 
occasionally, like the skin, in throw- 
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not get clogged and leave a weak spot 
for disease germs to enter the system. 
When the blood is clogged we suffer 
from what is commonly called a cold. 

Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discoy- 
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eradicates the poisons that breed and 
feed disease. It thus cures scrofula, 
eczema, boils, pimples and other erup- 
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blood is essential to good health. The 
weak, run-down, ‘debilitated condition 
which so many people experience is 
commonly the effect of impure blood. 
Doctor Pierce’s* Golden Medical Dis- 
covery not only cleanses the blood of 
impurities, but it increases the activity 
of the blood-making glands, and it en- 
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‘ake it as directed and it will search 
out impure a®d poisonous matter in 
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It will penetrate into the joints and 
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Teutonic Penetration 


Jules Claes, editor of “Le Metro 
pole,” of Antwerp, studied the 
growth of German influence in Bel- 
gium for some time before the war. 
His book, “The German Mole,” shows. 
how Belgium was 
Harmless looking German clerks, 
backed by such bodies as the Ham- 
burg Association for Business Clerks, 
took jobs with Belgian concerns at 











little or no pay, worked up, got. hold, 
and slanted everything toward’ Ger- 


many. Paid German agitators stirred 
up quarrels’ between the Flemings 
and Wallons. German schools ‘and 


newspapers were planted to niake 
public opinion Teutonic. Belgium 1s 
not alone in this, for the same thing 
was done in Russia, and the present 
war is popular in Russia because It 
means the rooting out of German in- 
fluence. We Americans are  alto- 
gether too simple and easy about 
these things, and we would do well 
to ponder the conclusion proved by 
Belgium's bitter experience: 

“No country can with impunity 
grant to Germans the same advan- 
tages it grants to other foreigners, 
since Germans “employ the advan- 
tages derived from hospitality for 
ends that are hostile to the country 





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Famous Structure te be Completed 

Next Season, Says the Engineer 

H. P. Borden, assistant to the chiet 
engineer, on the work, stated in an 
interview that if the program of work 
#@s outlined is carried out it will be 
possible to run trains across the 
Quebec bridge at the end of next 
season. By October, 1916, the great 
suspension bridge, which is 640 feet 
Jong and weigns 6,000 tons, will be 
floated to its place. At the end of 
the last year the anchor arm was 
entirely erected wtih the exception 
of the upper half of two panels next 
the main pier. During the winter 
the north portal was erected, and a 
certain amourt of riveting was done 
at various points. 

The great undertaking was begun 
nearly eight years ago by a private 
firm. Subsequently the bonds of 
the company were guaranteed by 
the théh government, During its 
first construction the bridge gave 
way and about 95 lives were lost. 








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'Britain’s Vigor 
Heartens Allies 
All Visitors to London Are Struck by 
the Position of Conscious 
Strength | 
. The “strong sense of power and ‘of 
self-confidence that seems to be the 
atmosphere of England,” is commect- 
ed upon by Dr. Hans Vorst, a neutrai 
correspondent, in recounting his im- 
pressions on a recent visit to Hngland 
to the Berliner Tageblatt. He begins 
his article by telling of meeting a 
Russian government official in Lon- 
don, who after a rather despondynt 
review of the operations on the 
Russian front, said: “At any rate, one 
feels quite at vase and heartenod 
again after a few days in London.” 

This statement interested Dr. Vorst. 
He decided to make a closer investi- 
gation of the Russian’s r k, and 
found that.he himself soon succumb- 
@d to the sense of London’s might. 
In his own words, he came under the 
spell of London's “silent demonstia- 
tion of solid wealth, quiet strength 
and established power.” 

Speaking of’ life in London, Dr. 
Vorst tells the people of Berlin that 
he found London had changed little 
during the war beyond the darke_- 
ing of its streets. Nowhere in the 
warring capitals. had street traffic 
suffe 60 littl. In Perlin and 
Paris, motorbuses had disappeared. 
But in London, cven those that were 
sent over to France in the beginning 
of the war have peen repleced. Paris’ 
hotels have reduced iheir prices to u 
war scale. But no such concessions 
have been made in London. Further 
more the stages of London are as 
resplendent as, ever, evening dress is 
common in the boxes and orchestra 
chairs, except for officers in uniform, 
and the restaurants have lost none of 
their elegance. 

Conversation with Britishers, con- 
tinued the writer, show that the Brit- 
ish themselves are dominated by a 
sense of conscious power. ” 

“This impression grows,” he adds, 
“the more one talks with them. The 
hysterical behavior of certain Lon- 
don newspapers dogs not seem to 
reflect the nation’s’ feelings in anv 
way. On the contrary I have always 
noticed a totally calm and objective 
‘attitude towards the whole business, 
for extravagant excitement is not a 
part of the national character. 

“So from my own experience I am 
inclined to considcr theso last peace 
speeches in the house of lords as a 
sign of this conscious power. . The 
English people still feels itself 
strong enough for: anything, and is 
consequently not afraid to have such 
speeches exploited as signs of weak- 
ness, especially when they are an ex- 
pression uf what all nations without 
exception want at the bottom of their 
breasts—peacé.” i 





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Mixed Farming Pays Best 


The Difference Between the Grain 
Farmer and the Stock Farmer 
When a livestock tarmer grows 
wsOver, ailalla aud graln, he uraws 
very heavily upon the supplies or fer- 
tiuty im tne iand. ‘This lertility he 
curries to the barn, places in the 
gay mow, in we suo, or in the feed 
wall, Lule Cibllic, CourUme IL, and tLe 
waste matter from their bodies goes 

wack tO Lie soil. 

ihis iurgeiyy, though not quite 
entirely maxes up for the fertility 
that has been taken away, So near- 
y pelicCl 18 Lis process of return 
of fertility that in the case of the 
production of butter jt takes about 
9yu0 -worth of butter to remove 60 
cents’ worth of tertility trom tie 
soul, 

it is for this reason that stock 
farming is the best kind of farming 
to fouow. ‘he tarmer whu requires 
his land to produce grain and é6elis 
that grain on the Market is making 
the cheap raw material which other 
men Manufacture into higu-pricea 
articles of general use, such as flour, 
iinseed oil, veef, butte and pork and 
following the usual course of econ- 
omic laws, he gets paid for his labor 
and gives awuy the material out of 
which his prouuct was made. 

“The end of that kind of farming,” 
says the Farm, Stock and Home, “is 
ultimate failure and can be nothing 
else, while on the other hand the 
man who manifacturers something 
that lives on the land, or returns to 
it the highest possible degree of the 
fertility taken away by the crop, is 
manufacturing a finished product.” 

And again in harmony with the 
same economic laws that go to make 
poor the seller of raw products, he 
gets return not only on his labo, 
but upon the labor of the stock which 
he employs to transform the raw 
material into the finished product 
and in addition to this he receives 
pay for the raw material itself. 

This then makes the difference be- 
tween the grain farmer and the stock 
larmer, 








Carried by Hard Places 
All men are liable to misfortune 
and accident. The improvident man ig 
crushed by them; for they find him 
without reserve force to meet them. 
The economical man has in histsav- 
ings a balance wheel whose momen- 
tum carries him by hard places. His 
position is independent and his pros- 
perity permanent, For it depends 
not on the fortunes of the day, which 
are uncertain and variable; but on 
the fix habits and principles of a 
lifetime, which are changelesé and re 
liable.—William De Witt, D.D, 


Se 
Minard’s Liniment Cureg, Colds, ete, 


aS At 
The reason why 80 comparatively 
small a number of German guns are 
on exhibition in Great Britain is that 
so many have been captured and 
jthey are in such good condition that 
{t has been found worth while mak- 
sa putting than Inia service agetant 
pu em into s against 
their original owners. 


An eye and ear hos: for Canad- 
ons hes been open pe Raheaione 
ere Many men.pass through on 

way from the front 


ALDERKSON NEWS 






OY 
~ WINTER 
Prof. Frankland demon- 
strates that COD LIVER OIL 
generates more body-heat 
than anything else. 
In SCOTT’S EMULSION the 
pure oil is se prepared that the 





blood profits from every drop, 
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The Hand That 
Rocks the Cradle 








“rural creaits, 


Farm Mortgage Banks 








On Premature Peace 


The Proposition Before a Sub-com | Famous Socialist Believes the Only 


. |, mittee of the U.S, Congress 

A tentative draft of a bill providing 
@ System of fatm loan banks was corh- 
pleted by a subcommitte, of the 
joint ous tee committee: on 

‘Lhe 
presented to both" houses of congress 
in A committee report. . 

The scheme of rural credits evolv- 
ed by the sub-committee is modelled 
in a large measure after the federal 
reserve banking and currency system 
adopted by the last congress. The 
plan provides for the establishment ot 
twelve farm mortgage banks in ditfer- 
ent sections of the country, to be lo- 
cated to best meet the needs of agri- 
cultural finance. Hath pank would 
be capitalized at $1,000,000, ana 
through miember banks throughout 
the country wou.d loan to farmers on 
farm security. The bill as framed by 
the subcommittee would limit to six 
per cent. the interest to be charged by 
the farm mortgage banks on wmort- 
gage loans, although members of the 
sub-committee b lieve that the usual 
rate would be considerably below 
that figure owing to the various safe- 


Is Also the Hand That Toils Long |®¥"™s incorporated in. thé bill. 


and Late on the Farm 2 

The hand that rocks the cradle— 
and washes dishes and mixes. bread 
and sweeps and mops and does the 
dusting aud washes the clothes and 
lrong and makes the beds and takes 
care of the children and cohtrives 
their clothes and keeps up the end- 


1ess mending and makes the butter young man well 
and tends to the chickens and keeps | ham. 





Knee Joint Stiff Three Years 
CURED BY NERVILINE 


Anyone would marvel. at my recov- 
ery, writes Mr. Leonard Lotham, a 
known about. Chat- 
1 had inherited a _ rheumatic 


a good table set for a devouring hotde tendency through my motlier’s: fam- 


of men and cleans up after tuem and 
soothes someone's tevered 


noon and-often splits Kindling and 
makes the fires and piants the garden 
and milkg and lugs teed to the calves 
and pigs and wood to the house— 
that hand needs a res. oncé- in @while 
and its toil should be made easier at 
all times. 

Look here, old man, did: you ever 
stop to think that your wife is your 
partner and has the heavier and more 
responsible share in your mutual 


work? Did you ever realiez that ske | with lameness, 


has to put up with conditions you im- 
pose? You, of course, believe. in say- 
ing money, Did you ever try to save 
work for your wife, gave her energy, 
vitality and health? 
importance to you, money and more 
land or your wife’s comfort and wel- 
fare? Do you consider her a house- 
keeper to be driven to the limit an‘ 
beyond without pay or as the mother 
of your children to be loved and look- 
ed out for?—Country Life in Canada. 





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Kellogg's Asthma Remedy has 
brought many to completely restored 
health and happiness. It is known 
and prized in every section of this 
broad land? ~ : 


ees 
Forest Preservation... - 
Government statistics showing 
during the presn; year no less-a sum 
than ten million dollars was lost by 
forest fires, make depressing reading. 
It seems, almost past belief that 


face at] trighttully. 
night and wearily rubs-its owner's/{he pain and 


hot face in the blistering kitchen at | left knee joint. 


ily. atid in my early days suffered 
About three years ago 
stiffness settled in my 

I was lame and wala- 
ed with a very distinct limp. Nervi- 
line was brought to my notice and 1 
rubbed it into tLe stiff joint four or 
five times a.day. It dispelled every 
vestige of pain, reduced the swelling, 
took our tite stiffness and gave me the 
full use of my limb again. I don't be- 
lieve there is a pain-relieving remedy, 
not a single liniment that can com- 
pare with Nerviline. I hope every 
person with pains, with sore back, 
with lumbago, with 
neuralgia—I do hope they. will try out 
Nerviline Which I am convinced will 
quickly and permanently cure them.” 

If Nerviline- wasn’t a wonderfui 


What is of more! painless. remedy, if Nerviline didu’t 


quickly .relieve, if Nerviline was.’t 
known to be.a granc cure for all rhuu- 
matic conditions, it wouldn't have 
been so largely used as a family rem- 
edy for the past forty years. No bet- 
ter, stronger, or more soothing lintr- 
ment made. Get the large 60c fam- 
ily size bottle; small trial size 25c; 


The man or wo-/sold by any dealer, anywhere. 





Test Your Cows 





Advantages Derived From Cow Test- 

ing More Than. Compensates for 

. Trouble Involved 

Tt is sometimes given as an excuse 
for not, joining cow testing associa- 
tions asd keeping milk records that 


«| the good and bad cows ina herd are 


known ‘dlready, and that it wouldve 


that only a waste of .money and time to 


provide the nécéssary outtit, dnd go 
to the trouble of weighing the miik 
and taking the composite samples 
weekly. Experience has shown, how- 


twelve thousand separate forest fires |°Y®": that it. is almost impossible for 


have had to be fought. Carelessness 


the most careful milker to estimate 


on the part of settlers is the main }®Ye2 @pproximately the milk yield of 


cause set down for 


the outbreaks, |®@Y cow in a herd, and it is frequently 


The fact is Jearl found—when milk records are kept— 
still one iedeanee. Ory ponsined that that there is a difference of as much 
in nearly all of the provinces if there |®8 ne thousand pounds a year be- 
ig to be any marked abatement of this |*Wee” the yields of two cows: which 


deplorable evil. 


little consolation to be informed that | PY 


tt is a matter of no| Were consideréd equally good milkers 


the owner. When this is the case 


railways, however, owing to greater | With. regard to the quantity of milk, 
supervision, are chargeable with quite |it will be easily understood that the 
a@ small percentage of the fires—in | question of quality is much more dit- 
tormer yearg they were the chief of. | ficult to decide by observation, as one 


fenders.—Montreal Family Herald. 





Ever Fvel That Way 

“T have a hard time’ getting my new 
hired man up in the morning,” said 
one farmer to another as they met 
in the blacksmith shop. ~ 

“This mornirg I called him ana 
said: ‘Jim, don’t you know the alarm 
clock has gone olf?’ 

“He answered: ‘Yes, I do, and I 
hope it won't come back,’” 


LACK UF MONEY 


Was @ GOGSud In 1118 Vase 





cow which is considered “very good” 
may produce a large amount of milk 
with a low butter fat test, while an- 
other cow producisg less, but richer, 
milk may be the more’ profitable ani- 
mal, and this difference can only be 
ascertained by keeping systematic 
milk records. _The difficulty of pro- 
curing labor on the farm is also giy- 
eM ag an excuse for not testing cows, 
but when it is considered that weighing 
samples for a herd of ten or twelve 
cows would not occupy the time of 
one person for more than about twen- 
ty minutes per week, it will be seen 

at the advantages derived from cow 
testing more than compensate for any 


It is not always that a lack of | little trouble involved in keeping the 


money 18 a beneut. 


records, especially as the work can 


, era. t by the per- 
inis lady OWes her health to tho|8¢@erally be carried ou 
lact that sae coud not pay in ad-|8°2 who milks the animals. ‘ 


vauce Lae lee demunded by a speci_- 
asl LO treat her Lor slomiach trouble, 
an teiling of ber Case sLe says: 








Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That 
Contain Mercury 


‘L nau bees treated by tout differ-| as mercury will surely destroy the sense 


ent piysiciaus, 
sLOmMacn Lroubie, 


during 10 years of 


anotner who told me ne Could nol! never be used except 
cure me; that 1 nad neuralgia of tne| from re 


slumach, ‘nen 1 went Lo & special- 
ist who told me I had catarrh of t.e 


swmacn and said he could cure me in| Cheney & 


sour months but would have to have 
ais money down. 1 could not raise 
the necessary gum and in my. extrem- 
ity 1 was led to quit coffee!and- try 
rostum, 

“The results have peon magical. | 
now sleep well at night, something | 


Lately I Caiued on hols System when entering it 


smell and completely derange the 
rough 

Such articles should 
on prescriptions 
utable physicians, as the damage 
they will do is ten fold to the good you 
‘-powsibly..derive from them, aa 


tarrh Cure, manufactured by 


he mucous surfaces, 


Toledo, O., contains no 
mercury, and is taken internally, acting 
firectly upon the blood and mucous sur- 
‘aces of the system. In buying Hall's 
waterre Cure be sure you get the gen- 
uine. t is taken internally and made 
3 Toledo. Ohio, by F, J. Cheney & Co. 
estimonials free. 

Bold by Druggists. Price, 76c. per bot- 


e. 
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipa- 


had not done for # long time; the | ‘tien 


pain in my stomach is gone and I am 

a different woman. aida tes 
“very time 1 had tried to stop cof- 

fee 1 sulfered from severe headcahes 





Making Trenches Huge Task 
A French solcier with a taste for 


so I contunued to Crink it although I statistics has calculated the amount 


had reason to believe it was injurious 
to me.” (Tea, also, is harmful, be 
cause it contains caffeine, the game 
poisonous drug found in. coffee). 


‘}of soil that has been moved in the 


work of trench making. There are 
about five hundred miles of first line 
repghes stretching from the- North 


“But ’ 
when 1 had Postum to shift to it Sea to Switzerland. And there are 


ditterent, Me 
“To my surprise I did not miss cot- 
fee when | began to drink Postum, 
“Coffee had been steadily and ‘sure- 
ly killing me and | didn’t fully regl- 
ize what was doing it until I quit aud 
changed to Postum.” Name given by 
Canadian Postum Co., Windsor, Ont 
Postum comes in two forms: 
Postum Cereal—the original form— 
must be well boiled. lbc and 26¢ 
packages. 
Instant Postum—a soluble form— 
dissolves 
water, and, with 


, WaS five or six lines of trenches wpon 


each side. A total of ten lines 
of ‘trenélies on the two sides wouid 
give a length about 6,000 miles, and 
this has involved a task of excavating 
twice as great as that of the Panama 
Canal, And it has all been done by 
hand labor with military shovels, and 
much of it has been done under fire 
and by men who have to work while 
lying on their chests! 





Not Even a Germ 


quickly in a cup of hot} A country school teacher wag cash- 
cream and sugar,/ing her monthly check at the bank. 


makes a delicious beverage instantly.| The teller apologized for the filthy 


30c and 60c tins. . 
Both kinds are equally delicious 
and cost about the same per cup. 


condition of the bills, saying. “IT hope 

you are not afraid of microbes.” 
“Not a bit,” angwered the schoo) 
microbe could 


“There's @ Reason” for Postum, |me'am; “I'm sure no 


by Grocera. 


live on my salary.” 


migasure will be: 








Real Plan is the Destruction of 
German Militarism 
Gusative Herye, the famous social- 
ist and anti-militarist, writing to his 
paper, the Guerre Sociale, forsees the 


FiOllowing consequences of a prema- 


ture peace, such as Berlin is attempt 
ing. to bring about by devious ways. 
‘H,” says M. Herve, “We allowed Ger- 
Many to drop out of the game at this 
moment, when ske still occupies Bel- 
gium, Poland, Serbia and a part of 
france, it would be sure proof that 
in order to commit crimes with impu- 
nity, it is only necessary to be strong, 
‘to prepare for a long time and to pos- 
sess a formidable. military organiza- 
tion. With such a proof before them 
the other Europoan states ‘would have 
but one desire, to give themselves 
over to militarism, in order to be able 
to put in a good fight when the next 
war came. And it would again be the 
case of an armed peace, and again the 
dance of the millions would go on and 
again there wou. be want among the 
working populations: while the next 
slaughter Was awaited. And in ten 
years, when our children would have 
grown up, they would witness the 
sime horrorg as we are witnessing, 
and Europe would once more be given 
over to the destruction of millions of 
its peopes. Only this time, since the 
Germans would have taken better pre- 
cautions, since they would not, per- 
haps have had the stupidity to. arouse 
the whole of Europe aainst the.n, 
they would be morv successful, and, 
instead of invading our country as far 
ag the Marne, they would reach the 
Pyrenees. 

“Let the Kaiser, on the other hard, 
be beaten, and it will mean the de 
struction of German. militarism. It 
will also mean that the German peo- 
ple will rise to reproach him with 
having brought his’ country to ruin 
and dishonor, and this will involve 
the substitution for government py a 
single man, of a parliamentary re 
gime, it may even mean the establish- 
ment of aj) German republic in the 
Place of tile imperial regime. At one 
s:roke militarism in Europe will be 
broken; Russia will be free to evolve 
a new social order under the influence 
of her allies, the great liberal powers 
of the west; all that is best in Europe, 
seizing the opportunity of the gen- 
eral disgust of war will establish, on 
the ruins of militarism, international 
justice aad an international police 
force which will prevent in the fut 
ure any fresh criminal attempt 
against the human race; the working 
classes will be delivered once for all 
of the heavy load of an armed peace 
under which they were groaning.” 





Nearly all children are subject to 
worms, and many are born. with 
them. Spare them suffering by uslug 
Mother Graves’ Worm Exterminator, 

¢ best remedy of the kind that can 
be had. 


Aerial Strength of 
Britain is Increasing 








» 

British Aviators Will Soon be Able to 
‘do Twenty Times as Much Work 
as Was Accomplished Dur- 
ing the Past 

There has been a remarkable, in- 
crease in the activity of aircraft on 
both sides on the western front. This 
is the outstanding feature of develop- 
ments since the battle of Loos. The 
Germans in September, constantly 
harassed by numerous bomb dropping 
expeditions on their lines of com- 
munication, made desperate efforts to 
meet the emergency by transferring 
Many new fast machines to the west- 
ern front, as foretold by your corres- 
pondent in August. 

The result is a continuous stal - 
mate, relieved by a steadily increasing 
aerial activity, until now both the al- 
lies’ and the enemy’s communiqu-s 
deal principally with tae work of air- 
crait. 

Aerial fighting, which until this 
summer consisted mainly of engage- 
ments between single machines, has 
steadily developed until now conflicts 
between flights and’ squadrons are a 
regular occurrence, 

In October and November the ene- 
my placed several new designs in the 
field and it is gratfying to note that 
no decrease has been shown in the 
marked superiority held by the Brit- 
ish machines. 

The air services are assuming such 
proportions that now this fifth arm is 
considered as essential to the con- 
duct of defensive and offensive oper- 
ations as is artillery, Tactics of aer- 
ial fighting between units of fifty 
machines are now being developed. 
The British air services recently 
doubled their machines and _ person- 
nel, By next summer the plan will 
be formidable enough to accomplish 
twenty times the work done this sum- 
mer, 

The importance of this extension of 
aerial strength is easily seen in view 
of the disorganization of the enemy's 
railways in Belgium, which has al- 
ready been accomplished on three oc- 
casions. 

It is gratifying to note that over a 
hundred Canadians have recently ar- 
rived in England to complete their 
training courses ag flying officers. 
they will be returned t:» the Canad- 
ian Flying Corps if such is formed.— 





W. A. Willison, in Toronto Daily 
News. 
‘Mothers Of Little Ones 


No mother of young children should 
be without a box of Baby’s Own Tab- 
lets. The Tablets are mother’s best 
friend and are us good as a doctor in 
the house, Concerning them Mrs. F. 
Wurger, Ingersoll, Ont. writes: “I 
have used Baby’s Own Tablets for the 
past eight years aad would not be 
without them. I can highly recom- 
mend them to all motherg of young 
children,” The Tablets are sold by 
medicine dealers or by mail at 26 
cents a box from The Dr. Williams’ 
Medicine Co., Brockville. Ont. 


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Words cf tne Wise 

We have not studied cost or econ- 
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(dent of the United States. 

Economy is near to the keystone of 
character and success. A boy that is 
taught to save his money will rarely 
be a bad man or a failure; the man 
who eaves will rise in his trade or 
profession steadily; this is inevitable. 
—William Ewart Gladstone. 

We shall all be made more simple 
by this war, We shall be more frugal, 
more serious, less cynical, greater.— 
Viscount Haldane. 

Waste is worse than loss. The 
time is coming when every person 
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Minard's Liniment 
theria. ' 


BY a royal proclamation published 
in the Gazette the exportation to 
Switzerland of virtually everything 
that ht be of service to Germany 
is prohi unless it, is consigned to 
Zoiciete Auiseden Suevilleance Econt- 
que, Ww corresponds with the Neth- 
erlands Overseas Trust, with which 
the government has admistered, 

Thus the British polie: of prevent- 


Cures Diph- 


beautiful house and a garden in a/ing supplies from reac German: 
lovely part of the When eh the contingent of neutral 
their hostess was w them | countries has een carried @ step 


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ares. Bae, Stee OF SOR RMN EP. 


PY) ; 

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THURSDAY, JANUARY, 271TH 1916 ’ 


cuse our long absence -from our 
little nook in -the News, but we 
have been. so bury watching the 
prices of grain that we. quite for- 
got that there was such a demand 
for good News items. Excuse us. 
ihe \ 

Everything in this thriving burg 
speaka of bustle and activity. The 
rowth of Jenner in spite of con- 
ditions brought on by the war has 
been almost startling. 








Last week saw the Annual Convention of the U. F. A. 
at Calgary, with over 1.000 Delegates in attendance. possibly 
the best convention yet held in the history of this great 
organization. From perusal of the Calgary papers it appears 
to this Editor that the most imp tant thing discussed at the 





The Special Train to Calgary on 
Monday took a goodly number of 
the Farmers of this district to the 
U. F. A. Convention 





Convent: te dat ~ er lank credits for the 

fares © Ha would) perant 

. ; , : W.G. Boyd i 
Farmers to borrow trom Canadian Banks on long time loans bp plnedeeaatna 


Bussanu, was in town last week to 
iuspect the local branch. Needles» 
to way he weut away satisfied, 


when they had suitable security for such loans. Such loans 
would allow many farmers to go into stock raising who are 
now not in a position to make the start. ‘he writer of this 
was at one time a manager of a small Branch for a Canadian 
Bank, and as the bank has since amalgamated into another 
bank, we do not think we are violating any confidences 
when we state that the Managers worked in that. particular 
bank under instructions from headquarters to make no loans 
to farmers over a twelve month period, and wherever possible 
to make the length of time much less. A system where the 
farmer would have at least two to three years tu pay back 
certainly would be beneficial to the farmer who hopes to do 
a little summer fallowing each year and get into stock. 





CLIIZENS, FARMERS and any 
ViliAbKS when you cash your 
cheques at the hank dont forget to 
lenve all you can spare with the 
eller for the Jenner Patriotic Kuna 
A list is, pinned on the wall and al- 
ready there are quite a few names 
on, but there ‘is room for many 
more and every loyal citizen shoula 
wake it a point to contribute some - 
thing no matter how small to help 
support the dependents of those 
brave feilows who are laying dow: 
their lives that we at home may 
a still live in peace and prosperity 
This | under the British Flag. We are cer- 
n for | tain many more will put their 
Must be the invigorating. climate we|names down for some amount. Our 
Motto should be Fight or Pay, 

The list is now Wheat-- 95 Bushels 
Cash--8 (4.50 
Total Estimate to date, $164 50 





A man from Peerless writes the Editor that he doesn’t 
want the paper any longer. We hadn’t the slightest intent- 
ion of making it any longer. Rest in peace. 





Quite an interest in the Election on Monday. 
little old busy Burg is livelier right now than it has bee 
a bunch of moons. 
have this winter. 











Our Coal makes warm friends. 


Harry W Johnson of Alderson 
‘was in Jenner on Tuesday on bus- 
iness. 





Burn Galt Coal. The Coal that burns all night. 4 


We are the sole agents and always have a 


supply on hand; 





RS Clark of Tide Lake shipped 
a car of wheat this week. He got 
well over the Dollar Mark and is 
continually: smiling 5 


AGENTS 
WANTED 


.o represent Canada’s Great- 
est Nurseries 

n Aldersc., and surrounding 

district. A splendid oppor- 

tunity for the right man to 

do big business. Our list for 








Bankhead Hard Nut Coal always on hand. 
All kinds of Building material in Stock. | Lumber, Lath 
Shingles, Windows, Doors, Cement, etc. 





ATLAS LUMBER CO. Ltd. 


C. RIDDELL Mgr. 







braces best list of hardy var- 
ieties 
Western Experimental Sta- 
tion. 


Carlstadt 
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evary seupect, ‘| We offer exclusive territory 


Rates, $1.50 and Handsome free outfit. High- 
$2.00 per day. est commissions. Write 
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Martin STONE & WELLINGTON 
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Prop. 





$28.50 Harness only 


for Our Special Farm Harness made in Medicine 
Hat. Q This is a good strong Harness and will do Jutfit. 
the same work as a Harness that will cost you 
twice as much money. 4 You can save money by 


buying this Harness in Medicine Hat. 





The T. Hutchinson Saddlery Co’y 


623 Third St. MEDICINE HAT 


Get*More Money” for your Wolves 


Muskrat, Foxes, Lynx, Beaver, Marten, White 
‘Weas4l,Fisher and other Far bearers collected n your ection | | 3 


te eeHUBE RT te target | | OY Strict and Careful attention to business hopes to meri; 
wie ene bute a share of your patronage. 


and price list published. 
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the season of 1915-16 em-|Everything in Music. 
recommended by} TUNING and REPAIRS 





The weather has been very nipp- 
ing lately and quite a few thermiom- 
eters have registered as low ab 56 
degrees below Zero. 





The elevators have had consid- 
erable trouble in securing cars.” 


THE COLUMN--:-- 


--t+-That Gets Results 








FOR SALE.—Three Incubators, 
nearly new, at half price. 
J. H, Gasson 


WANTED.—Fresh Milk Cow. 
Year old Heifer for Sale. ; 
J. J. GarpELL, Alderson, 


FOR SALE or rent on shares, 8. 
BR. $ of 20-19-10, W 4th M. 160 
acres, 75 acres broken. Apply P. 
D. McAlpine, Drawer 2196, Cal- 
gary, Alberta. 7 


OLD PAPERS. — Big bundle for 


10 cents at the News office. 
—— —— 


{ AM BUYING GRAIN in th 
country tributary to Suffield. Sec 
me before you sell. Also buying: 
on contract. Government weightr 
and Inspection given. C, KE. Mil- 
ler, Suffield and Agatha. 


HILDAHL DAIRY—Fresh milk 
delivered to your door every morn- 
ing Evervthing clean and san- 
itary. Frosh eggs for sale. 18-t! 


PETE NELSON — Wants your 
work. He is prepared to do har- 
ness repairs and shoe repairs. He 
will also press and clean clothes, 























to suit anyone. 10stf 
TYPEWRITER WORK of 4l! 
description done, ~ reasonable 


charges at the News Office Alder 
son. 
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LOOK !! 


’ In the rush of bisihess do 
not overlook the absolute ne- 
cessity of music. Its influence 
tis beneficial to everyone. This 
is the Musical Season. Are you 
prepared for it ? 








If it is 
Edison or—Victor phonograph 


a Piano, Organ, 


or records, Wecan supply you 


Prices right. Quality and 
Service Unsurpassed 


The Assinihola Music Co, “a 
Everything Musical 
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FARMERS, In the coming Spring we will be equipped 
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or the successful growing of grain, with our A.1. Gasoline 


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Phone 2064 eee ee 


THE PRIDE OF THE WEST 


LIVERY, FEED and SALE BARN 
G.. J. HAVERKAMP, Prop. 





PLENTY OF GOOD WATER ALWAYS ON HAND 





SOFT DRINKS, CIGARS, MAGAZINES CANDIES 


A FULL LINE OF. 
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Pipes from 25c. to $4.00. - Rubber Pouches from 75c, 
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Co-operative 
Saving 


is facilitated and en- 
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UNION 
IBAAINIKS f a Joint Savings 


OF CANADA Account in the names 


of Husband and Wife, Father and Son, Brother and 
Sister, or any two or more members of the family. 
Either can deposit or withdraw money at will, and 
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SERRE OTe 7 RON URE TRIP RRE REET Semmens 


PREMIER ASQUITH 
AND HOME PRODUCTS 


A Remarkable Speech—Home Produo- 
tion Makes For National Con- 
servation Resources 


Orie of the strongest pleas for the 
tupport of hom industry was made by 
Mr. Asquith recently in the House of 
Commons. During his speech he said: 

“The intention and object with 
which these taxes are put forward is 
of a very different kind, and entirely 
without prejudice to the genera quea- 
tion between free trade and what is 
called fiscal reform. The object—and 
& very important object—is, on the 
one hand, to diminish or discourage 
the consumption of superfluous or un- 
necessary commodities of a luxurious 
kind; but still more— and this to my 
mind, is the really important point~— 
to discourage unnecessary importa- 
tion. In the conditions under which 
we now live everything that comes 
into this country from abroad which 
is not absolutely needed for the sus- 
tenance or carryimg on of the indus- 
try of our population, involving, as it 
does, a corresponding obligation on.us 
to export, tends still further to dis- 
turb and depress the exchanges, and 
therefore to embarrass the conduct of 
the war and the provision of the finan- 
cial resources which are absolutely 
necessary for its successful prosecu- 
tion,” 

Canada has carried to a greater ex- 
treme than almost any other country 
the reckless habit of buying more 
abroad than she sells. It is true that 
we are remedying our fault in this 
direction and that our formerly ad- 
Verse trade balance is being rapidly 
transformed into a favorable trade 
balance. Our imports are falling and 
our exports are rising, but our im- 
ports are still too large. Consumers 
In Canada should take Mr. Asquith’s 
ndvice and determine to buy goods 
nade in their own country rathet 
tather than to send abroad huge sums 
of money which are sorely needed at 
home. 

Those who hav@ criticised the 
“Made-in-Canada” policy while it has 
been advocated in Oanada during the 
past few years, would do well to pon- 
der carefully over the remarks of the 
greatest Prime Minister Great Britain 
has ever had. 








PROTECTION IN GREAT BRITAIN 


Articles “in “mdny of the leading 
British papers indicate that after the 
war the policy of allowing the enemfes 
of Great Britain to sell their goods in 
the Britich Isles in open competition 
with British manufacturers will be' dis- 
continued. British workmen who have 
struggled in the trenches will need 
positions when they return and a suf- 
ficient number of positions cannot be 
obtained for them if German and Aus 
trian goods are permitted to be sold 
in the United Kingdom, replacing 
British goods and furnishing émploy- 
ment for German and Austrian ingtead 
of British workmen, It is scarcely 
likely that British Dominions who 
have supported the allies will be 
forced to compete in British markets 
with the former enemies of the Em- 
pire. Although it is too early to specu- 
late on the exact form which the new 
fiscal legislation will take, it is reason- 
ably safe to predict that it will at least 
provide a system of preferential 
tarffs among the various parts of the 
British Empire, concessionary tariffs 
among the present allies and discrim- 
inatory tariffs againet their enemies. 


OUR SACRED DUTY 


Splendid Sentiments Are Expressed by 
Industrial Leaders 

One of Canada’s biggest companies, 
in place of the usual advertisement 
of their product, has run the follow- 
ing Chrietmas message ip all the 
periodicals they use: 

“To contribute to a Fund for the 
relief of the unemployed does not dis. 
charge or liquidate the duty we owe 








to the brave men who are sacrificing | 


their lives in the Trenches that we 
may live and enjoy the Blessings of 
Liberty and Happiness. 

“Better by far that we extend our 
Consideration in an effort to use im 
our Mills, our Factories, in our Cities 
and our Homes all over this fair land, 
the products that Canadian labor pro- 
duces, so that when the Boys come 
marching Home they will be welcomed 
back to a Pragperous and Happy Can- 
ada. 

“Their sacrifice is worthy of our 
greatest effort—Our Duty is plain; 
Canada with Canadian Labor and 
Capital can produce, manufacture and 
distribute, products sufficient to keep 
the Wheels of Industry turning to the 
‘imit. The Song of Prosperity and 
Happiress should ring out all over the 
land. 
| “Let us sincerely pledge, to the ex- 
tent of our needs, to purchase ma- 
lterials produced in Canada by Can- 
adian Workmen, and the result of our 
efforts will return to us the Blessings 
of a Prosperous and Happy Natign.” 





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It makes nourishing hot iat be bet ‘of cold: food 
which wold not otherwise be eaten, But See that 


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Better Trenches This Year The 








men. he 
is vividly 
by hed ely f i 1 
responden eo. i 
his tour iz ; m areas. 
districts “wi the No 
tngland Et ot betas: 
R eferring er area, 

‘tie ‘apartats i t rege 


“that all turther development at this 
factory will involve the employment 
of temaie labor for big shelis will 
be carried \put by girls. It was wt © 
that there Would be a difficulty inst 

litting of the heavy bodies: of “shell 
weighing about 102 pounds in -the 


Pe me but’ that is to be got over by | 


ranging itor laborerg to raise. the 
forgings to the exact height of. the 
Aathe centfes. 

The facts disclosed are fuli of sur- 
prises, and not the least remarkable 
fact is@that in ne district a ‘shell is 
being produced entirely by unskilled 
labor. 

The visiting journalists “Were cer- 
tainly not prepared to hear even a 
hundredth part of what they were 
‘told by the Woman workers them: 
selves ag the turning, boring ana 


thre. ding #hops Were traversed. The| 


rapidity of the movements of the 
jaches werfe almost bewildering to an 
uninitiated onlooker. Surprise deep- 
ened into wonderment at the answers 
given to questions put to these dexter- 
ous hands, 

Anything from three days to a fort- 
night had been the period of training 
received before a lathe had been 
taken charge of. Then from the very 


concent = : nese we a “ALDERSON NEWS 
° Beating tt the Men |General French a Strategis 
Dollars Saved By Bovril gprs co “Si mee’. ‘More 







| strategist * of 


Hig” '“Alshe-to-Flanders inbieden 
Saved Frarce’s System ot 
Defence 


‘\Among the many tributes oF to 


Sir John Frencn is the tail by 
& writer in the Manchester dian, 
who is known to be esp well 


very considerable in- 
by dad he al been able to 
Own Way, that was 
‘jaimpossibie in war, and especially in 
the War in which we are taking part 
as one of a coalition, this insight 
might have been generally recognized 
aS amounting almost to genius. -he 
movement trom the. Aisne to Flan- 
ders, which was Sir John French's 
‘idea’. and -his alone, was an inspira- 
‘udh.* It saved the French system o1 | 
ace tn which niust otherwise have 
one to. pieces entirely. This move- 
ment is one of the few instances -in 
war. of our having divined in advanc, 
and forestailed an ‘enemy strateg) 
The full story of , of General Frenci . 


}command «cannot be told yet, but ii 


is safe to say that the more that is 
known of the difficulties with which 
he had, to-deal the stronger will be 
his ‘claim to the country’s gratitude 
for his services,” 





Muscular Rheumatism Subduéd.— 
When one is a sufferer from muscular 
rheumatism he cannot do better than 
to have the region rubbed with Dr, 
Thomas’ Kclectric Oil. There ig no oil 
that so speedily shows effect in subdu- 
ing pain, Let the rubbing be brisk an41 
continue until ease is, secured. There 
is more virtue .n a bottle of it than 
can be fully estimated. 





Spices 
The eating of spices originated in 


reer cola ODORS AR Mega, ARE 








Brimful of ststenance 


—PURE., 


Better Arrangements for the Comfort | His 


of Tommy While on Duty 
normous imprevements have been 


rips yr, 


bap of War sith on an 


The Hun Sete bo! betbre thd ofeticn 


made in the .renches since last win-!| gaze of recordéd history ipd by At- 


ter, says a correspondent. 
brick floors. 

They have a ‘system of trench 
pumps to get rad of the water, and 
I was greatiy impressed by the 


pipes which I saw running a miie | istics composed in 


and a half back itrom the tront of the 


Most of | ula, and straigut 
them have boardef noors, Others have | self a most.in ors 


lurid indictutei 


Yl for him- 
pMiation tor 
stark) savagery. This 
‘is ‘gulied irom‘a pic- 


| barbarism Aha’ 


tering analysis ot 


| turesquely ras ot fa tar trom. tipt- 


trench, suppiying drinking water to | 


the men. 
were comparatively comfortable. The 
men had rouga beds to 
Many contained tables. One dug- 
out I saw had fouf panes of glass 
in it, making a little window. Many 
ot them also had small braziers wita 
tires. 

I was told that one 


‘khe sdugouts waich | saw | 


| 
| 
| 


of the most | 


valued present which the men receive | 


are boxes of ni. itlights, which they 
are allowed to burn in their dug- 
outs. This year the men have been 
served out with long  indiarubber 
boots, Vhen a battaiion of men is 
coming to the trenches, it finds in 
the supporting lines these boots 

ing. ‘They remove their own 
boots, gets ca extra pair of thick 
stockings, and put on the rubber 
boots. When coming away after a 
turn is the trenches, they leave these 


boots at the same station, and re- 


ceive their 
which have been dried for them. 

In the meantime, 
back to camp, the men are taken to 
an enormous washhouse, where they 
strip, and their mud-coated uniforms 
and underclothes are taken from 
them into another department, where 
they are washed, brushed, and thor- 
oughly disinfected. After the bath, 
the men go into another room, where 
they find a complete fresh suit of 
underclothes, clean asd dry tunics, 
pants, and puttees, socks, and boots. 


The Princie of Wales bathes in one from 
of these washhouses with the other creati 


men. They have also a 
shop. They are supplied with leath- 
er waistcoats and sheepskin or goat- 
skin coats, and the best of 
muiflers. 


Pills That Have Benefitted Thous- 


ands.—Known far and near as a sure atrocious, 


remedy in the treatment of indiges- 
tion and all derangements of the 
stomach, liver and kidneys, Parme- 
lee's Vegetable Pills 


fics have failed. Innrumerable testi- 
moniuls can be produced to establish 


Own boots and socks, 


when they get 


gloves and’ 





barber’s | animals are less dangerous; 


have brought est; 
relief*to thousands when other speci- crucified our heroes; 


erman character- 
nestréuches by ‘an 
irish sowiter. The analysis makes’: re: 
mharkable readé 


' 
Down all the’ “Eehturies! he tia: 


{the Hun has bornd upon him unmis- 
lie on, and 


takabl he mark of the beast,’ right 
up to ‘latest, most tormidableyan 


|murdefous attack upon Idhg suffering 


civilization. iis" undeviating | record: 
with his neighbors has -been one’ of 
unrelaxed treachery and unprovoked 
assault. His god is Force; his relig- 
ion Blasphemy; his prayers Hypoc- 
risy; his master Fear, In peace he 
plots mischief and organizes strife; 
he intrigues against neutrals, rivals, 
allies. His rerhy, “are«broken; his. 
obligation dishodored;.his wordt by- 
word; his honor. '‘f6reworn. 

His Rule is execrated; his Justice a 
travesty; his States an oppression; 
his’ government¢tyranny. He shows 
neither chivalry to woman, succor to 
the weak, nor @emency to the unfor- 
tunate. His Warfare is an orgy: .of 
stimulated savagery and organized 
brutality. The unwritten Code of civ- 
ilized warfare is outraged by ‘him; he 
fires on’ the Red Cross and shoots 
Sisters of Mercy. By evolution he 
is a degenerate; by breeding a brute; 
by instinct a bully; by nature a trait- 
or; by profession a spy; by choi 
cad; by accomplishment an assassin; 
by turning a murderer. 

His origin is evil; his pedigree pol- 
lution; his education crime; he was 
suckled on sin; his home is hell; 
primitive races regard him with hor- 
ror; the most savage peoples turn 
him with loathing. The brute 
on is his-Spperior; ferocious 
the viper 
is less vicious; ‘he most foul are less 
loathsome; the most indecent are 
less obscene; vermin less repugnant. 
He is devoid of humility and humor; 
pity and pigty, shame and remorse 
nis habits Rp hateful, his manners 

Nappearance, deceitful; 
he is known by his smell. 

He has slain the pick of our man- 
hood; he has done to death our bray- 
has tortured our brothers; has 
maltreated our 
captured; massacred our non-combat- 
ants. ” Ges has sunk.,our passenger 


the truth of this assertion Once tried | ships without: mercy or warning;, he 


they will be found superior to all 


other pills in the treatment of the air | desolate 


ments for which they are 


2 prescribea. 








For an hour a teacher had dealt 
With painful iteration on the part 
played by carbohydrates, proteids and 
fats, respectively, in the upkeep of the 
human body. At the end of the les- 
gon the usual test questions were put, 
amorg them: 

“Can any girl tell me the three 
foods required to keep the body in 
health?” 

There was silence till one maiden 
held up her hand and replied: 

“Yer breakfast, yer dinner and yer 
supper.” 


Dobbe—A friend of mine who 
makes moving pictures bumped up 
‘against his first failure last week. 

Dobbs—How was tlLat? 





has shelled defenceless villages; laid 
peaceful country sides; 
made war with intention on women 
and children. Compared with him the 
Thug is a desirable citizen; the as- 
sassin is a respectable member of 
the community; the cut ‘ttiroat and 
the criminal are desirable acquaint- 
ances, 

His evilness enies to heaven for 
punishment; his sing stink in the nos- 
trils; .he is soclety’s pariah; -human- 
ity’s “6utlkw: civdlization’s curse; mor- 
ality’s leper; the world’s , vIshmael; 
the spawn of hell, And his plot 
against mankind has failed; his plot 
tack. on Liberty has been frustrated; 
his bid for World domination has 
been beaten; he has shot his bolt and 
missed his mark, And now some 
Sap-heads at home have started talk- 
ing about “not hurti his feelings,” 
“not humiliating him,” half heartea 


Dobbe—He tried to make a moying | 8etthements, and premature peace. 


picture of two old men playing a 
game of chess in a village store. 





Oswald—My love for you is like the 
deep blue sea. 

Clarissa—And I take it with the 
corresponding amount of salt. 





ee eS 


= DODDS | 
7 KIDNEY 9 


Ted,” he say 








Why euffer from corns when they 
can be rooted gut by using Hollo- 
way’: Corn Cure, 


Postman Quite -Cvol 


An incident of remarkable cool- 
ness and bravery,@m the part of a 


corporal in the West Somerset Yeo 


manry serving in the eastern theatre 
of war ia related in a letter from his 
major. Referring tO @ man named 


| Corporal Davis, Who has been oftic- 


ially repor' as “seriouslyl wound- 
the back of ‘his neck, broke his jaw, 
and “Knocked tliree teeth out: © He 
had been doubléd up 


have been ex 
but the Moment he 
ed up to Major” 


feel the shock, 
t hit he march- 












and, saluting 82 ly, asked if he 
might have his ds attended to, 
Bubscauensi h ed to hospital 
smoking ¢a in the solind 
side of his ‘mo 4 4%: 

Before enlisting: ys 1 Davis 
was the» native vil- 
lage. as 

hs, 25 

An lement has béen patented 
to e @ blind person W thread 
« ‘ 

i wah 















































“A Dullet went through 


th colic the 
day before, and, consequently, might 


rrant’s dugout, 


start there had been rapid growth in| the tropics and is still more preValent 
efficiéicy, ‘but short as: the training | there: than elsewhere, Neither do we 
had «been’ in the majority of these|today, even in the temperate zone, 
cases, one,of the young women, the|use ag many spices ag our ancestors 


Cowan's 
Cocoa 








iene eachommnnee? 58 





wife of a trooper in the Scottisn|/did. Modern methods of farming, re- 
Horse, now on active gervice, had |frigeration and transportation have 
gone ‘one: better.” A fine physical|made it umnecessary to add to the 
type of ‘Scots womanhood, she had] flavor ef foods 
been given’ three hours’ iustruction |griginal taste, nor yet 

for the. work on which she was engag-| undesirable flavors that 


ed. nother, equally intelligent and :have added to meats and other things | sian losses 


keen; wasengaged on a lathe where|kept too long. 
five Separate operations were needed 
to ‘eompléte the shell; case. “So}the Middle Ages, and many of the 
worthy . of notice had: been the|great discoveries of new territories 
achiéveméeMs of this newcomer into} were due to no scientific enthusiasm 
niunition work that on a fecent occa-| for exploration but to the search for 
sion she was presented, to H.R.H.|that wealth which lay in gold ana 
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll| spices. Pepper was so valuable that 
Who reported,to the King. It mustf{t was even used as a medium of ex- 
have interested His Majesty greatly | change. In 1284 a pound of mace 
to learn that: in-this woman's depart-| equalled in value the price of three 
ment there is’ ot’ & halt per cent. of|/sheep. Further back still, in Biblical 
spoilt work. “"/ times, we read of the worth of spices, 
In several cases the girls were |some being literally 
asked what had been the effect of] weight in gold 
the sudden change from domestic 
conditions to the factory from the 
point..of view of strain. “A little try-|would you prefer, darling?” 
RE for ‘the first few days,”-was the “Wel, 





work most interesting, and should | such perfect taste. Henry, that I leave 
be sorry to leave it.” Turning, be-|{t all to you.” 
velling, boring, rolling, fixing the 


Losses of Prussia Over Two Million 


“According to the Niuwe Rotter 
that have lost their |damsche Courant; the Prussian lists| twenty-eight 


“There are also 234 Saxonian, 315) dukes. 
Wurttemburgian, and 
lists, 50 from ‘the 
lists of the German officers and non- 
commissioned officers in the Turkish 
The paper adds that the lists 
are published’ 
newspapers, 
small printed pages. 
book, they would form 45,000 pages, 
worth their | °° 100 volumcs of 450 pages each. 


army. 





making him 


“No, dear,” cooed his devoted wife.| concealing internal laughter, 
“I am still with you.” 


Huns ‘Need. Metal ° 
In one of the Gernian churches: are 
bronze’ statues: of tha 


to cover the/of losses, numbers 390 to 399, contain] Hmperor Maxmillian:.and , his hypo 
time may | 42,825 names, making the total Prus-| thetical ancestors, including King Ar 
2,287,083,” says the Am-/thur, of England, which is the finest 

sterdam correspondent of 
Spices were very valuable, too, in| Telegram Company. 


Reuter’s| German statue of the sixteenth cen 
He continues: tury, and of variéus’ Austrian arch 
All of these.are to be melte1 
240 Bavarian|down and the ing, used in making 
navy, and some/ suns. ; 








Minard’s Linjnent Cures Distemper. 

At one time Jée-Jefferson was per 
suaded to acc y a friend to a 
new comedy* ttion. The piece in 
itself proved: to inferior;*and the 
comedians were en more so. On 
their way out « friend remarked 





.in the form of small 
and comprise 10.610 
Printed as a 





eigen cmenesinaaniighise The sick man ‘had just come out of|that the comedians séemed’ nervous, 
“What kind of an engagement ring |a long delirium. 
said, feebly, 
they generally give me—I | hands 
variable reply, “but we now find the | mean—oh, I am so confused—yours is | “Where am I? 


“Where am 1?” he| “What they neéd is life,” he com 
as he felt the lovixg}cluded. 

comfortab:e,| “You’re too severe,” said the gen- 
In heaven?” tle hearted Jeffersoh, his. grave face 
“Ten 
years would be’ enough.” 








thread, and completing the shell case 
—all these several operations, and 
many more, are entrusted to this 
small army of female hands. 

One. of the leading men in the 
guunition industry was sceptical a: 
the start, and, in his own woras, 
“thought it could not be done.” After 
reflecting, he decided to give the pro- 
posed new departuré a trial. It is on’ 
the highest authority that the result 
up to date of vhis experiment, dub- 
iously entered upon, must be stated. 
It ig this, that the output of the wo- 
men munition workers is double that 
of the men. To say this is to under- 
stand the fact. The product is not 
only fully double; it slightly exceeds 
that proportion. Figures were pro- 
duced in proof of this very startlirg 
acsertion, and infoimation was vol- 
unteered without Qualification or re- 
serve. 


we S43 


Minard’s Liniment Co., Limited, 

Gentlemen,—Theodore Dorais, a 
customer. of mine, was completely 
curec of rheumatism after fiye years 
of suffering, by the judicious use of 
MINARD’S  LINIMENT, 

The above facts can be verified 
by writing to him, to the Parish 
Priest or any of his neighbors. 

A. COTE, Merchant, 

St. Isidore, Que., 12 May, ‘98. 





Market for Canadian Fish 


Great Demand in Great Britain and 
Australia, With High Prices 

In addition to the great market be- 
ing opened up in Great Britain owing 
to the scarcity of supplies tnere 
twrough+ war concitions, a valuable 
export*market igs now being deveiop- 
ed in Austraila. A report to the de- 
partment of trade and commerce [rom 
Canadian ‘rade Commissioner Rogs 
of Meibourne draws attention to the 
fact that Australia also faces a fish 
sliértage, aud that there is a record 
demand for Canadian fish there. 

New brunswick packers have al- 
ready taken advantage of the open- 
ing and are slipping large quantities 
of canned sardines and herrings. 
Preserved fish in tins are reported to 
be in gemeral demand, with high 
rices rung. During tue past twelve 

onths OCalada bas sent more than 
half a million doliars’ worth of fish 
to Australia. 

In Great Britain fish prices,have 
gone Up More than 100 per cent., 
and recent shipments of Canadiun 
ush to the motheriand have demon- 
strated the immense value of the 
market opened up by the war to 
Canadian fishermen. Canada posses- 
ges tie most extensive fisheries in 
the world, with a catch last year 
Valued at more than $33,000,000 and 
more than 100,000 men employed in 
the industry. The ill wind of Ahe 
war is blowing good to the fisher- 

men of Canada, who are getting 
ready A and higher prices, 


influence 


perform their 


functions. 





“" a Oldy sure you 
OK, but are 

A felative ‘Of “Capt: Jones of Mud- |, - 
‘6 Ofticer—Madam, 1 am Capt. 


Rimes of Mudford, 

Kind Old Lady—Ah, then, that ac- 
counw for the extrao-dinary resem- 
+ blance 


Women everywhere are 
praising this great food 
cure, because it lifts them 
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ALDERSON NEWS 


‘endian Pasve Font STRIKING TRIBUTE 10 VALOR AND 
ORGANIZATION OF FRENCH ARMY 


General of Canada Issues Appeal 
FRENCH FORCES ARE A MARVEL OF EFFICIENCY 











MILLIONS OF ACRES OF OUR G00 
~ AGRICULTURAL LANDS ARE IDLE 


ONLY A FRACTION OF TILLABLE LAND CULTIVATED 











Doing Splendid Work 
for Keturned Troops 


The Work of the Canadian Patriotic 
Fund and the Soldiers’ 
Commission 
The establishment of the Soldiers’ 
Aid Commission for Ontario, of whick 
the secretary is Mr. C. N. Cochraue, 
parliament buildings, Toronto, is the 
first result of the report recently is- 
sued by the hospitals commission, 

and the forerunner of others. 

The care of the soldier who has re- 
turned to Canada, mutilated or weak: 
ened ag a result of active service, is 














on Behalf of the Fund 

Somewhat over a year ago, as presi- 
dent of the Canadian Patriotic fund, 
1 made an appeal to the people of the 
Dominion for funds to assist the fami- 
lies of the gallant men who were go- 
ing to the front. Though anticipating 
a generous response, 1 was cost 
prepared for the magnificent mann 
in which the call was met. Monies 
have poured into the treasury of the 
fund until the total contributions 
have reached and exceeded six million 














Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Millions of Acres of Land 
Suitable for Agriculture in Canada, and There are Only 
Fifty-Four Million Acres Under Cultivation 


Famous War Correspondent Tells of Actual Experiences in the 
Field, and ‘says that the French Army has Every Detail 
of Fighting Arranged with the Utmost Care 


‘ For fifteen years before the war 
came in 1914 to disorganize the civil 
ized world Canada naa been going 
throug an‘ era of prospérity anu de- 
velopment which had been equalled 
only once and never surpassed in the 
history of tne settlement of new coun- 
tries. In the ten or fifteen years im- 
mediateiy preceding the construction 
of the Canadian Pacitic Railway, the 
middie west and the Pacilic siope in 
the United States filled up and de- 
veloped with hitherto unheard of rap- 
idity. That record, up to then un- 
equalled was seriously challenged by 
this country a quarter of a century 
later. For years we saw the packed 
liners swinging into their docks in an 
unending line and great trains leav- 
ing by the scores and hundreds car- 
rying new Canadians to new Canad- 
jan nomes. 

To control and direct this mighty 
stredm we were forced to create and 
set up much machinery. How well it 
did its work the tens of thousands of 
acres of rich wheat lands of Western 
Canada, only yesterday virgin prairie, 
the well built, prosperous towns in 
what were only a decade ago desert 
places, bear ample witness. 

Then came the great upheaval, the 
dawn of chaos over a horror stricken 
world and the damming up, for tre 
time being, of the stream of new life 
and new blood from across the ocean 
to our land. 

Those years of rapid settlement 
were marvellous, but, after all, how 
really small a part of our country is 
even yet under tribute to the basic 
industry of Canada, agriculture, Fig- 
ures are often dull enough, but in 
this case they are graphic. Those 
given here are necessarily only ap- 
proximate and given in round num- 
bers, but they are the latest available, 
based on the last census and form a 
reliable source; says the Montreal 
Star. To take our own province, 
Quebec, we are estimated to’ havo 
40,000,000 acres of land suitable for 
agriculture. After a century and a 
half. only 16,000,000 acres of it are 
occupied and only one-half of this is 
under cultivation, or one-fifth of the 
total. The Maritime provinces have 
20,000,000 acres suitable for agricul- 
ture and 11,000,000 acres of it is un- 
der cultivation. Ontario has 50,000,- 
000 acres of agricultural land, has 
23,000,000 of it occupied and 14,000,- 
000 acres of it cultivated. Manitoba 
has 40,000,000 acres of farm land and 
raises crops on a quarter of it. Sas- 
katchewan has 68,000,000 acres orf 
land for farming, her settlers have 
taken up 30,000,000, and have 14,000,- 
000 acres under cultivation. Alberta, 
with the biggest agricultural area in 
Cenacs, 82,000,000 acres, ar setign: 
ed y 000,000 acres, and o nis 

Same Ce 


only ‘is under ~-cultivation. 
Last of all, British Columbia, with 
25,000,000 acres of farm and fruit 


lands, has 3,000,000 acres occupied and 
one-third of this actually under cul- 
tivation. 

To recapitulate then, the Maritime 
Provinces are cultivating only three- 
twentietns of their available land, 
Quebec one-fifth, Ontario a little over 
a third, Manitoba one-quarter, Saskac~ 
chewan a trifle over a fifth, Alberta 
less than one-twentieth, and Britisn 
Columbia one-twenty-fiftth. We have 
got, all told, 325,v00,009 acres of land 
suitable for agriculture in Canada, 
and we have under cultivation only 
64,000,000 acres, or, roughly, one-sixth 
of it. Is there anyone who will dare 
to estimate the wealth this land will 
produce, the population it will sup- 
port when it is ail taken up, all yie.d- 
ing the reward it is capable of yield- 
ing for labor bestowed? © 

For the moment immigration from 
across the ocean is almost at a stand- 
still, and rightly so. Canada would 
not at this time draw one man from 
the firing line to increase her mater- 
ial prosperity. These men, like our 
own boys, who have  foregathered 
with them on the fields of Flanders or 
elsewhere, wherever the world war is 
being waged, are fighting our battles 
for us, spending themselves. for the 
salvation and welfare of Canada just 

s Uic indian fighters and the pioneers 
of old spent themselves. They are 
making straight the paths toward our 
future, and it. ig the part of those of 
us who cannot join them so to pro- 
vide that that part of the future 
which lies within our power to regu- 
late shall be worthy of their sublime 
sacrifice, when they come to us in 
their thousands, as come they will 
when the war is over. 

We have the land and the infinite 
possibilities that arise from it. But 
let us not be content with a self sat- 
istied contemplation of mere possi- 
bilities. Untilled acres and undevel- 
oped resources profit nobody. We 
have had a machine for the direction 
of immigration flowing into this 
country, but, as it stands, it will be of 
litthe enough use to us when the 
crisis comes. We will need a far big- 
ger and far more efficient equipment 
than we have ever had if we are to 
handle the flood of new population 
that we can direct to our shores after 
the war is over. lt can be made to 
break all records and, put all. preced- 
ents to the blush. There will be io 
use in our attempting to handle it 
with inadequate equipment. We 
have, for the moment, leisure in 
which either to enlarge our present 
facilities for the handling of immi- 
gration or to create new ones. When 
the war fs over and the rush is upon 
us it will be too late. Failure to pro- 
vide now for our certain needs will 
be disastrous. 

This is our opportunity, golden in 
more senses than one. Shall we grasp 
it, or shall we fail? 





Blind Get Uncensored News| Death Meted Out by Wireless 





Miss Helen Keller Says Censors Can- 
not Read Braille Shorthand 


Miss Heien Keiler aud other blind 


persons in the United States are ob- 
lusmuing uncensored news lrom te 
capitals of belligerent nations. These 
lewspapers are published for tre 
blind in London, Vafis, Berlin and 
Vienna, according to Miss Keller. 
They are not Censored, she says, be- 
cause they are printed in shorthand 
braille, a point type used tor the 
blind, which the censors are unable 
to read. 


Through the medium of these 
journals in the Braille system what 
is probably~=tfie most authoritative 
article on Germany’s lack of tood 
has reached this country, For the 
first time it is revealed that every 
man, woman and child in Germany 
is living on slender rations, doled out 
by weight, determined on after a con- 
ference of chemists, scientists and 
physicians in Berlin, 

The journal which brings the in- 
formation is De Neue Zeit, or the 
New Time, a Socialist publication for 
the blind, issued in Berlin. 

“These uncensored accounts of con- 
ditions in the warring countries tell 
me the true sentiment among the 
working people and the intolerable 
conditions that surround them,” 
said Miss Keller. “Their hearts are 
almost at the breaking point.” 

Miss Keller made this explanation 
concerning the war disclosed in a 
speech she made recently on pre 
paredness. 





Cresceus now Figuresin War 





Famous Trotting Horse Sold to Rus 
sians Said to Have Been Sent 
to the Front 

Reports that have reached George 
Ketcham, Toledt, former owner, train- 
er and driver of the lion hearted trot- 
ter, Cresceus, 2.02%, state that the 
former great trotting stallion is peing 
used for war service in Russia. 

Cresceus was the talk of the har- 
mess world for several seasons when 
his terrific speed and wonderful 
gameness made him a horse admired 
by the entire horse fraternity, and an 
equine whose name became a house 
hold word in every family where the 
light harness sports was the favorite 
pastine. 

But fame is fleeting. Even when 
the horse reached a fairly old age he 
‘Was wanted badly by a Russian horse- 
man, and George Ketcham parted 
with him for a consideration said to 
be $25,000. Cresceus, it is said, did 
mot please the Russians as well as 
they expecied, and therefore it is not 
eurprising to hear that the great 
horse has been sent to the front, 


The Queen of Norway, Kit 
George's sister, fs the most econom! 
@ally attired Queen in Europe. She 

mds $1,000 yearly on her dress. 
Queen of Spain is the most ex- 
dressed Queen. Her dress 

run to about $15,000 a year. 





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A’ New Horror to Come in the Man- 
less Aeroplane 

“Future wars will be conducted by 
humerous small units, unassembled,” 
said Mr. Hewitt, to the Fontreal Star. 
“Rising into tue air at many places 
these wili gather ‘suddenly at a desig- 
tated point as locusts rise and gath- 
er. Destroying, they will then disap- 
pear by separate routes is quickly as 
they came. This will give wariare a 
new terror for the non-belligerent. 
We shall ses privateering aircraft 
robbing, burning, killing such as 
hever committed by the privateers of 
the sea, 

“When the time comes it must be 
inevitable that the civil population of 
the worid wiil throw up tueir hands 
in horror and abolish war. The fact 
that all these -hings are true—now, 
and undeniably true—indicate to me 
the safety of forecasting a really war- 
less future. It is even now within the 
bounds of scientific possibility that a 
Wer vessel oif the coast might attack 
a city in the Mississippi Valley. Here 
is a startling fact, not generally un- 
derstood, but which caznot be denied. 
Dovelopment along this line may be 
expected very soon. 

“Aeroplanes may and can be built 
which will proce.d to given destina- 
tions without pilots, with an accuracy 
unaifected by air currents or other 
outside influenco, When the mech- 
anically designated distance has been 
covered the tripping of an automatic 
lever will cend the machine to earth 
with imemnse speed or will release 
whatever expiosive missile it may be 
ermed with. 

“At the present moment such de- 
vices, with an sccuracy of within six 
hundred feet in landing after a fitty- 
mile flight, are in existence. At pros- 
ent the management of an aeroplane 
demands the skill of experts, but in 
the future, not far distant, litle more 
skill will be required tuan that called 
peat today in the driving of a taxi- 
cab. 


“Already the Sperry stabilizer pro- 
mises this.. It controls an aeroplane, 
maintaining its stability and the dl- 
rection of its flight without any care 
whatover from the operator. He 
might go to sleep in flight without en- 
dangering his progress, or walk out 
on one of his machine’s wings with- 
out upsetting it.” 








Life Insurance Figures 


It is estimated that about one per 
son in four of the entire population 
of the United States and Canada car- 
ries life insurance, Many carry more 
than one policy, so that the entire 
number of policies increase in num- 
ber and in amount much more rapidly 
than does the population, for about 
two and a half million policies are 
added each year, and the increase in 
amount would double the total in less 
t.an ten years, The security of this 
vast business is in the assets of the 
companies concerned, amounting to 
no than five and a quarter bil- 
lions of dollars. This ig @ triumph 
of modern thrift. 










the prime duty of Canadians. for 
some months the Canadian Patriotic 
Fund has been cndeavoring’ to ensure 
that the men already back from Kur- 
ope should suffer no want, This 
work has been volu.tarily undertaken 
by. local committees of the fund, al- 
though, in most instances their time is 
fully occupied with the task of mak- 
ing provision for the families of sold- 
iers. 


Each soldier ig interviewed at Que 
bec by a representetive of the fund, 
and a confidentizl report sent by the 
latter to the patriotic committee ot 
the town to which the soldier is go- 
ing. This serves the two fold purpose 
of protecting the. fund against the 
greedy or unscrupulou. and of giving 
the local committee information that 
is helpful in finding employment for 
the deserving. Not every man who re- 
turns to Canada wearing his majes- 
ty’s uniform is inciuded in the latter 
category, but the great majority have 
done their duty in the fullest degree. 
To the latter it hag been the privilege 
of the fund to present a small badge 
bearing the words, “For service at the 
Front.” The men who are wearing 
these badges are the worthiest citl- 
zens that we can acknowledge. Like 
charity, that badge should be allowed 
to cover a multitude of sins. 


The work that the Canadian Pat- 
riotic Fund can do for returned sold- 
iers, however, is limited by Act of 
Parliament, and it has been specifi- 
cally enacted that no assistance can 
be given by the fund to “any person 
who is in receipt of any gratuity, pen- 
sion or allowance paid by his majesty 
or by any foreign government in con- 
sequence of incapacity or death oc- 
curring of incapacity or death oc- 
account and largely because the pen- 
sions and gratuities paid to incapaci- 
tated men are oft-times admittedly in- 
adequate, it has been necessary to 
establish a hospitals commission and 
disablement fund. The officials of 
the latter, in their report to the fed- 
eral governm nt, recommended 
among other measures, that provinc- 
ial commissions be formed for the 
purpose of supplementing these pen- 
sions either by monetary grants or by 
free training in various trades. The 
Soldiers’ Aid Commission of Ontario, 
as we have said above, is the first 
step in this direction. Already it has 
announced its inte.tion of mobilizing 
the manufacturers of Ontario and we 
do not doubt that the process will be 
facilitated by the manufacturers 
themselves. Others also will be asked 
to lend their aid in discharging’ a 
great national duty and there is every 
prospect that in Canada at least the 
traditional tragedy of the returned 
soldier will have no place. 








Decides on Regiment of Indians 


Enthusiasm prevails on the Indian 
reserves over the decision of General 
Aiughes to allow the formation of a 
battalion of Indians for overseas ser- 
vice. Although there are many In- 
dians in the contingents that have 
gone, the policy generally has been 
to discourage enlistment, All over the 
Dominion, loyal Indians have offered 
their service and have been refused 
and the Indian department states 
that there will not be the slightest 
difficulty in raising a full regimert, 
and there might be a second. 





England is Proud of Australia 


The English public take much 
pride in the manner in which Aus- 
tralia has learned of the withdrawal 
from Gallipoli. This attitude is sum- 
med up by an Australian newspaper 
as fully portrayed by the words ot 
Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech: “We 
highly resolve that these dead shail 
not have died in vain, that this nation, 
under God, shall have a new birth of 
freedom.” 





Phote by American Press Association. 








doftlars. 


Large, however, as this sum ap- 
pears, it has not greatly exceeded cur- 
rent demands and, if peace were de- 
clared in the immediate future, the 
entire surplus on hand would be re 
quired before all the men of the Ex- 
peditionary Force could again return 
home. : 

Today there are 25,000 families, 
comprising, it is estimated, 80,000 in- 
dividuals dependent upon the Patriot- 
ic Fund. 

With further recruiting the de 
mands upon the fund will, with ‘each 
succeeding month. continue to grow, 
so that it ig estimated that, should 
uhe war continue during 1)is a sum 
amounting to some _ $8,000,000 and 
probably more will be required. This 
would, however, only mean $1 per 
head of the population for the people 
of Canada, and it is little indeed to 
ask of those who remain at home in 
comparison with the sacrifices in life 
and limb of those who are fighting in 
defence of the nation. . 


In spite of all the various calls that 
have been made for funds to aid our 
sailors and soldiers and the magnifi- 
cent response that has been made 
in each and every case, I still feel as- 
sured that the warm hearts of all 
Canadians will respond to this further 
appeal to enable the Patriotic Fund to 
continue its splendid work during 
1916 and take care of the families of 
those who are fighting for their sov- 
ereign, the empire and the Dominion, 
on the battlefields of Europe and on 
the high seas. 

(Signed) ARTHUR, 

President Canadian Patriotic Fund. 
Government House, Ottawa, 

ist January, 1916. 








Britain a . Distributor 





Increase in Outshipments Due to Cer- 
tain Enemy Ports Being Closed 

The increase in exports of tobacco, 
resin and petroleum from Britain has 
subjected the British government to 
considerable criticism on the ground 
that the government, while stopping 
neutral shipments, is permitting its 
own shippers to increase their ex- 
ports. Official cricles, while not 
denying the accuracy of the figures, 
declare the condition due to a change 
in ports of distribution instead of any 
favoritism on the pait of the Britich 
blockade, 

French resin in normal times, it 
is pointed out, reached the continent 
generally through Hamburg and 
Antwerp, and with both these ports 
closed Britain has become a _ traus- 
shipment place. Besid@s shipping 
enormous quantities of tobacco to 


her troops abroad, it 1s also pointed 


out, Great Britain has now become a 
distributing centre for-much of the 
Chinese, Greek, Egyptian and Rhod- 
esian tobacco which formerly was 
handled by continental ports. 
American oil companies have im- 
ported enormous quantities of petro- 
leum into Britain, where it is stored 
preparatory for shipment to the con- 
tinent when it is wanted there. Great 
Britain also serves as a storehouse 
for much petroleum purchaSed for 
the use of allied governments, for 
whom she acts as a distributor. 





Allies Can End War in a Year 

If England should put forth sup- 
reme efiort in the coming year, and 
Russia should obtain sufficient equip- 


ment for her men, it scems to us that |tion was 


Germany* would be brought to the 
pass of urgently seeking terms of 
peace well before the end of 1916.— 
American Review of Reviews. 





Italy exports 
$4,000,000 worth 
nually. 


from $3,000,000 to 
of human hair an- 


Dummy French Cannon en Which German Aviaters Drop Bombe . 


Nthe two exhibition motor cars at the | 


It is a splendid tribute which E. 
Alexander owell, the famous war 
correspondent, pays to the valor and 























efficiency of the French armies in 
the tield, 

“We have heard a_ lot,” he 
said in an interview, “of tlie effic- 


iency and organization of the Ger- 
mans, In my opinion, the French are 
now equally efficient. ‘That Is a sub- 
ject on which | think I am competent 
to speak, for I watched the French 
army grow, so to speak, 1 have, seen 
it trom the Marne to Champagne, 
which I left but recently. In some 
respects, indeed, I think the French 
army superior. The Germans have 
efficiency but the French have effic- 
iency plus the human element, and 
that counts for a great deal. If a 
French battalion loses its command- 
ing officer, it is not disorganized. 
Every man knows his work, and, if 
necessary, is able to act independent- 
ly. That is a tactor which the Ger- 
mans do not possess.” 

Speaking of the German bombard- 
ment and occupation of Antwerp, Mr. 
Powell related how the Teuton wave 
swept over what was apparently an 
empty city. “At the first word of 
the German approach,” he said, “the 
people fled to the cellars. When the 
Germans came marching through the 
streets, there was not a soul to be 
seen, I believe that my photograph- 
er and I, standing on the balcony of 
the American consulate, were the 
only spectators, 1 suppose the Ger- 
mans expected to see a great demon- 
stration, One would have thought that} 
the principal streets would have been 
crowded with sightséers., There was 
no one. Every window was boarded 
up. Every doorway. was closed. 
There was not a piece of bunting. 
There was not even a stray dog on 
the streets. The Germans marched 
down the magnificent thoroughfare of 
the main street, and that was their 
reception in Antwerp. I think my 
photographer described the scene per- 
feclly when he remarked to me at, 
the time: ‘You know it reminds me 
of a circus which has como to town 
a day before it was expected.’ 

“I spoke a moment ago,” Mr. 
Powell went on, “of the efficiency ot 
the French armies. 1 do not wish 
to be misunderstood in my remarks 
about German efficiency. There 
seems to be an impression here that 
the Germans now in the field are 
largely old men from = soldiers 
homes or boys from school. That is 
not the case. The Germans have a 
very formidable army today. A 
few weeks ago, I saw 20,000 German 
prisoners taken in the Champagne, I 
talked with at least a score of them.,' 
While I saw old men and boys of be- 
tween eighteen and nineteen years of 
age, I should say that fully 95 per 
cent. were men of between twenty 





and forty, in the pink of health. 
They were dirty and hungry of 
course, but they were first class 
fighting men. The German army 
is still extremly efficient and ex- 
tremely formidable. lt is no use 
hiding that fact.” 

“In regard to efficiency of the} 


French armies, were any particularly 


striking instances brought to your 
notice?” 
“Well, take for instance, the or 


ganization of the scene painters. I 
heard while travelling around = in 
France that the scence painters from 
the theatres had been mobilized for 
war service. One hears so many 
strange things in the war zone, But 
1 found afterwards that the mobiliza- 
an actual fact, and had 








proved remarkably efficient. What 
the Krench government has actual- 
ly done is this: it has mobilized 
ail tne scene painters from the thea 
tres and iormed tuem into battaliona, 
Instead of painting drop acts for 
(heatres, they ale now painting scenes 
to conceal gun positions. 


“Suppose, for instance, you wank 
éd to piace a battery of guns in 
a@ city square. In the = ordinary 
course of events, after that battery 
had tired a tew shots, a German 
taube woula hover above it, locate 
its position, flash it by wireless to 
the Germans, and in an hour pro- 


bably tbat battery would be out of 
action, with all the gunners dead, 
Now the scene painters would erect 
a contrivance for all the world like 
the top of a circus tent over the bat- 
tery. The canvas would be painted 
to match the remainder of the square 
If it were summer, it might repre 
ent a bed of geraniums or rhode 
endrons, anything which would loox 
like the rest of the square. The 
German airman above would then see 
nothing of the guns. He would see 
the canvas, but to him it would look 
just like the remainder of the square 
He would think, as a matter of fac 
that he was looking at the squara 
The French gunners would be un- 
disturbed. 

“I saw a humorous instance of the 
efficiency of the scene painters only 
recently. I. was motoring along a 
road on the French front, not only 
within range of the German guns, but 
in full view of the Germans, who 
were probably not more than two 
and a half miles away. Between the 
road and the Germans, the French 
scene painters had erected a canvas 
screen about twelve feet high, held 
erect with bamboo poles. On _ the 
screen was painted a perfect repre- 
sentation of an empty road with pop 
lars growing by the side, The Ger 
mans could see the canvas through 
their glass, and it would seem to 
them as nothing more than an emp- 
ty road, useless to shell. Screened 
by the canvas, thousands of French 
soldiers marched along, invisible. 
The French had even carried their 
efficiency so far,” Mr. Powell added 
laughing, “as to establish watering 
carts at ‘ntervals to keep down the 
dust thrown up by the men on the 
march for fear the Germans should 
see it and discover they were being 
deceived, 

“There is another thing the French 
are doing and I do not think is 
known here. An intelligence officer, 
disguised as a Belgium laborer or 
what not will ascend with a French 
aviator. Together, they will cross the 
German lines and come down fifteen 
miles or so. beyond, The pair will 
agree that the aeroplane shall return 
at a certain hour a few days hence 
and the aviator will return to his 
base leaving his companion. The dis- 
guised officer will penetrate the Ger 
man lines, pick up all the informa- 


}tion he can and then fly back with 
it at the appointed time to the 
French lines. In an hour or two, a 


mass of valuable information will be 
in the hands of the French general 
staff. 

The British forces in France now 
number well over a million men,» Mr. 
Powell stated. “The remarkable thing 
about it is that, in all this transport- 
ation of men, not a single life has 
been lost,” he said. There has never 
been anything like it before and it is 
to my mind one of the most remark- 
able things of the war.” 


aaeemeinnmaeies — 





Peace and Immigration 


Immigration From Europe Will Need 
Careful Consideration When 
Peace is Veciared 


In the annual report of the depart- 
ment of immigration J. Obed Smith, 
assistant superimtendent of immigra- 
tion in London, states that Canadian 
agents in kurope have nol encour- 
aged any class of labor to seek en- 
gugements in Canada for some 
months past. He states, however, 
that the whole field of emigration trou 
bsurope will need tull anu exhaustive 
consideration before auu when hostil- 
ities cease, becsuse many conditions 
wili have changed, Canada witt have 
to meet from Australia and New. Zea- 
land the same competition in the 
general emigration heid when peace 
is concluded as she has in the past, 
and even at present active competi- 
tion prevails, he states, 

In Mr. Smith’s report also appear 


WDE wtis lo eect that 


lie 
London ofiice have been \ounod to tie 
war @fice for military purposes, aud 
that the Paris offices formerly used 
for emigration purposes have been so 
damageu by aerial bombardment chat 
they have been closed and the bal- 
ance of the staif temporarily placed 


| A Modest Commander 


nelipe | 








Whole Fleet Cheered the Hero on 
His Return 

Remarkablé scenes were witnessed 
oh tue Loudon stocK kxchange Wucu 
Lieul.-Colmluander bruce, Of the suc- 
during bil, Lome on leave Lrom tue 
vuruuleiies, Was Introuuced to tus 
Mehive’s, 

tie Was recognized while standing 
Oulside ¢ of the entrauces of liv 
“rtouse,” und was cConuucieu LO Luv 
Cousols Market, Where bis appeus 
unce Was the signal for a rousing 
patriotic demonstration. Cheers trou 
the large gathering ol Mewbers pres- 
ent colud be heard Oulside, and tus 
heroic submarine cOoWluander Was 
lionized in tue widest selse of tue 
teri, 

He wag asked for a speech, and, 
Standing on a chair, responded iu 
the mouest way that they have in the 
navy. “Gentlemen,” he said, “I am 
very much olhiged to you for tue 
splendid welcome you have given me, 
We have done nothing to deserve it, 
but it's very nice to get it.” 

A member told those present that 









the “done nothing” to which Lieut- 
Commander Bruce referred was the 
sinking of thirty-Lwo merchserrt ships, 


live Lransports, one torpedo boat, aud 





under the control of the general com- 
missioner for Canada tm that city. 





Government Workers Will Go 


Government employees fit for ser- 
vice are to have the opportunity of 
going to the front, General Hughes 
is gathering the names of eligible 
Canadian women, capable stenograph- 
ers and good at figures, who will be 
able to take the places of the men 
in the militia department who are fit 
for active military service. Ministers 
of the crown at the head of other 
departments will follow the lead, and 
a considerable fighting torce will be 
the result, 





A Zeppelin is a costly production, 
and $200,000 is required to build such 
a military weapon and equip it for 
destructive purposes, The expenses 
connected with these airships does 
not end here. Great sheds must be 
erected, and gas producing plants 
laid down, so that the Zeppelin may 
have itg daily feed of hydrogen. 


lo 
Cut flowers will keep fresh many | about 


days if their stems be inserted in a 
wixture of charcoal and sand. 


Lane 


one gunboat in the course of a forty- 
four days’ cruise at the Dardanelles 

When Lieut.-Commander Bruce re 
turned from hig cruiss he was aston- 
ished to find that the whole fleet was 
flying his flag, and at the admiral's 
orders Ell cruised round the entire 
British and French fleets, while the 
bands played the National Anthem 
and “See, the Conquering Hero 
Comes,” and the bluejackets cheered 
at the cops of their voices. 





Canada's Shell Industry Permanent’ 
Steps to insure the permanency of 
the extensive shell industry develop 
ed by the war are being tak Dur 
ing hig stay in Canada, Lionel Hitch- 
eng recommended that such action be 
instituted, and it is announced of- 
ficlally that the que_tion has been re- 
ferred to the Economic and Develop- 
ment Commission, which will report 
as to how best the industry may be 
conserved, In the manufacture of 
shells expenditures now in progress 
in Canada aggregate about $300,000, 
000, The employees are estimated af 
100,000. Subsidiary industries 
in refining copper and zinc have been 
organized. } 











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IMPERIAL OIL COMPANY. 
Coal Oil ae 
























































Patriotic Fund. 





Atpgrson Patriotic Funp 






























Gus Broduson of Alderson, was 
in Jenner last week. 


Mrs. Geo. Tio 


mpson has dicen 






































Gasoline g Lubricants , 
N ic : W heat or cash equivalent. os" pues at Rosedale-Farty for a, fen | ‘ : 
Hard Grease Axle Grease Cup Grease se wheat pae t : ‘ ooiven 
Stuart z= S 
: *| WM Cotter 50 ve! (ij er 
; * Na ‘ New Adsin this iseue. It wil) 
1 rices. ' 
Let us book your seasons requirements at present prices Strong & Dowlen per Geo 56s {PAY you to Fem then The Old R eliabl e 
H Von. Wilucki 20 ks Mediaball Sida elouaion'a : P ; tart 
1 3eo Russell is busy loading S 
PIONEER DRAY LINE 990 | couple of ears of ice from, the Bow Pioneer ; tore 
’ River near Tilley 
LOCAL AGENTS oats bush eavasewen mg 
cisiiinidetbhesn at cocina Johnson Bros 100 Bread for saleat the Palace. at 
. , 00 is fresh every dav, ' 
nn Ne ee | . 
; } 
eaten tee . ou ensh The weather certainly is cold’ Ti Are You Prepared for the Cold Weather? 
THE -ALDERSON PHARMACY [0-5 0 ie Seer, Se vetherneatiy met Caer 
S. F. McE WN, M. 2. proprietor ‘kon nvig 10 99 |tooat 8A M.A resident of New) 3 
7 ( Holland elaims the low mark of 62! e e 
ERA | atari eae 6 ap” | in that dintrlot, Some oold You should inspect our winter 
| Take Laxacold or Bromo-Q uinine for that Cold {{ Adams Bros. ‘Tide Lake 24 60 Ai Gh Becliaed “deocted the aoli| ¥ wear (Garments. 
. and ward off the “ Grippe. 1 Rov Weollven 1 60 : gas Harry W sl 
: ; 1 tito ry aes 0-00 owing card from Harvy Wagner I.) 3 
Nyal’s Pinol Expectorant and White Pine of Tar {| Scollard and Degy 4 was written on Xmas Day from | ff 
will stop that cough (| = 6 Alexandria, Egypt. It reads a 
Sy + aatineasslakaea: Wey. Dear Bill--Yhis is some place. Sheep lined Coats, 4 
any A or ; 
: t| eee mee Lots Of good bathing in the séa. | ‘ 
WE HAVE THEM ALL resmme Few Lene gang to the front In Uk Heavy Woolen Mitts, 
we oy ae ye, ee eat -——— } WUTDiDy. 
EDEN: TARE SCENE sara (is Ae OE Tota mate 164 50 esate Sheep lmed Shoes. 
. | W. G. SCOLLARD ELECTED , 
The Grain Exchange Barber Shop Sg: ieellea mis THE REAL ARTICLES. 
‘ ' ; . G. Seollard was elected by 
‘ ; ° De lan t elief Fund! the ratepayers to fill the vacancy 
Cleanliness is next to Godliness Se ey tices, [on the Couneil caused by the retive ‘ 
— A. }. Drummon reas. ment of Dr. $8. F. .MeEwen on’ § 
BRING YOUR LAUNDRY TO IRS A Monday evening last. F C W ll 
: i mussen, Bingviie 5 00} ay i . ive Pista div (deans 
CGC. JI. STEELE ; H A Wanvip 5 ool oe eleetion me held inthe o fice ° 6 oO ven 
. i. yy {of the Secretary Treasurer between 
sore pied i 3 "MeEwan * a the hours of Band JOpan.  Kighi- 
THE UP TO DATE ST EAM LAUNDRY 7 E \oDiarmid » 95 OO) feb ratepayers east their ballots and 
2 — 2 qe D: ummong 5 00) Of these Mr. Scoliard received 18 
——_—— = eheee ae A Friend .' ; 5 OOland Mr. Starr 5. F. E. McDiar- 
M Church 8.8 8 22) mid wio acted as Returning Vllicer | 
. ig | LAIT Soolla: nd Hegy 10 00 | declared Mr. Seoiiard eiecied by D e e E 
- : ’ W. D eKay 2 OOleight votes. Messrs. Scoliard, Cot- ¢ 
850 A 4th Street, MEDICINE HAT, Alta. 40 22 j ter and MeDiartnid with thus cum- OMmMmion XDFress oO 
Phone 2504 | | pose tue Vouneil lor 1yi6. ‘Lhe MONEY ORDERS. Payable in Canada 
Farmers SOS aCe er saeapsre: Meat Ba es and United States. The safest method of 
5 e 3 es pie. Parra wc wets Cat IOP abo Goy eVeliiig Pou. eit Fi é 
Buy a Big Bull Gas Tractor to-day. | 3 transferring money. : 
Market Prices I OW. J. ddall, J Peis buck a Foreign Cheques payable any where, 
- hit vid eth bi hy deowrtbhadebch “x ep> on enemy countries. 
} vw . . . . ° 
iat cacific Railway Station 
’ ORY De lp 
: d a 
i] ! rt ; i 
; won ff ALDERSON MEAT MARKET 
— LOUIS RHODES, Prop. 
{ > 4 4 Lvlpyuia Wes d tl 
: Md mnt 
: | 
: f We handle all’ kinds of made in Canada Meat 
Lge eee Hatalavilt: aga] SMM IGE epvetal GAYE pie wren INCLUDING 
“ omnes 
Paes my ; HAM, RAM, LAMB, SHEEP UTTON 
4 ae’ aes 1. : i : : Fe ons Ont |} dikaye you evcl-iouked tue Pate ,’ ’ '? or M > 
Price only $62 5 0.0 Pert Arthu: 9 Ont. f 3 : ; ‘ | 1 os riolic buna? ive tueiivels JOU ate 3 ; 
| Bi aes 1; pa 7 ‘ A pee Oluy uskea to pay, tae Olhers are We also deal in all kinds of Fish except 
a ashen aly 15 1 uoiig thedightiug: .dund your con- a 
Orders for above Engines at above price will be acce; t.| er, me iethalaciaacia jatiweuie 1004 J: Dentiiond of WHALE, SHARK, SWORDFISH & SUCKERS 
ed if they reach me by Jan. 31st. ek ; moderate, Satisfaction | 2/480" Of PAY the Teller of the | 3 


Engines will be delivered when desired any time before 
April 1st. 


guuranteed 





Terms:---$100 with order, balance saad 


when engine is delivered. 


Pluss freight to point of destination. 


| 
1 





Pioneer Dray Line 


Specialists in prompt and 





efficient transportation. | 


Phone 26 


| to-day. 


P.O. box 7 


jin the hospit 




















Messrs Orw 
nad 850 neres 


old a fraction 


san.town on | 
I‘jJannery makes striki figure 
Mani a : kes a striking figure | Mens. Apply Box RB 
jin the Khak.,. 


Earnie Wo 
rson last Th 





o\e t be 
Of Local Interest 


Aveuet Orwold was in town for 
veral days this week and ¢ ut] 
hig loud of supplies on vie sit 


old and Peder 


in crop and have only 


on had 


of their grain. 


Priv vate Frank Flannery of the health. 


Ub bithy corvice aul Legiua 


a few days leave. Mr. 


IC Jones of Brutus is in town 


spe nding several months| 
al at Medicine Hat Mr 


liven returned to Ald- 
ursday and under car- 


After 





}Ol his biberuating quarters to-day 





| Union Bank of Jenner 





: | On account of the war we dare not 
O J Wood of the Union Bank was} 


jin Calgary on Wednesday | mention Sauerkraut. 


| — | 
FA du. MeDiarnud was a busines ss | 


\¥ sitor to , Valery on | Wednesday | _— 


can eens THE ALBERTA FARMERS CO-OPERATIVE 
ELEVATOR COMPANY, 





eee nreeres are 


he 
5 
iy 

Gaoline Gus and Spark Plug Harry | & 
Were in Jenner last week, Report | it 
ed ali the Pool players in goud | 3 











FOR SALE-- 20 Plymouth Rock’ 
News Office 


Mr. Farmer:--If in need of Flour or 


Feed, call at the 
FARMER’S ELEVATOR 


and get our prices. 


Teddy Bear Osterloh came out 


but as he cant distinguish his 
shadow he says he is going to rob 
somebody’s coal heap and go back 

















ge , ar i AJ Theroux made a business rrr roma — 
y BAe a ment is regaining his for trip to Shausavon, Sask this week : 
www ner health. : 
I GLY Liee ff Tripol i ‘ h x - = e 
CANADIAN PACIFIC ‘RAILWAY I The 176th 3attalion is heir g or] R Van Tsnk se nm S o ts $21 00 per son 
WESTBOUND | ganized at Medicine Hat under the|days this-week ‘They also’ visited Bran - - $19.00 per ton 
direction of Lieut Colonel Nelson 


No. 1 11.41 p. m. 


No. | dope only to let passengers off. 


EASTBOUND 





No. 4 8.20 p.m. | 





No. 3 11. 15 a. m.,. ' Spencer and so far has been quite 


| successfull. The News is infurmed 
lthat J. B. Graham, a former earp- 
jenter of this town has enlisted in 
the new regiment. 


Medicine Hat where R Van. Lueen 
and H Yan Tol proved up 

The News is informed that R Van 
Juueen of Tripola will shortly marry 
aw young lady Miss J Klein Hesse- 
dink at Orange City lowa : 


Good Flour - $2.75 per cwt 





We also have on hand 


Barbed Wire 2 pt. 
”? ” 4 pt. 


$3.90 per nid 
$4.10 per spool